Lyr/Chords Add: Raccoon

Subject: Raccoon ^^
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Oct 00 - 11:52 PM

Hardiman found this one and we thought it was very funny. I suppose it could be tacked onto most any song in this pattern like Bile Dem Cabbage, or Old Joe Clark, etc., but it is listed in the Warner collection on its own.

RACOON
(Anonymous)

O, the raccoon got a bushy tail
And possum tail hit's bare
And the rabbit ain't got no tail atall
'Cept a little bunch o' hair.

Love, hit is a killin' fit
Beauty, hit's a blossom.
Effen yo want yo finger bit
Jes' stick it at a possum.

I tuck my gal to the barbecue
An' this is all she eat
Is a pot and a half o' Brunswick stew
And a side and a half of meat.

Love, hit is a funny thing
Shaped jes' like a lizard.
Crawls right down your backbone
Nibbles at yo gizzard.

CHORDS: I, IV, V.

SOURCE: Traditional American Folksongs, Anne & Frank Warner, as sung by Frank Warner.^^

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