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Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down

19 Oct 00 - 10:38 PM (#323088)
Subject: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Little Neophyte

Hi Guys,
I tried to find this tune through the lyric search, but I can seem to find it.
I'd appreciate the help.
Thanks,
Bonnie

19 Oct 00 - 10:41 PM (#323091)
Subject: Lyr Add: BOIL THEM CABBAGE DOWN
From: GUEST,mousethief (at the library_

here's one: clicky

BOIL THEM CABBAGE DOWN Traditional

Chorus:
Boil them cabbage down, boys,
Turn them hoecakes 'round,
Only song that I can sing is
Boil them cabbage down.

Raccoon has a bushy tail,
Possum's tail is bare.
Rabbit ain't got no tail at all but a
Little bitty bunch o' hair.
(Chorus)

Raccoon and the possum,
Racin' cross the prairie.
Raccoon ask the possum,
Did she want to marry.
(Chorus)

Possum is a cunnin' thing,
Travels in the dark,
Never thinks to curl her
tail 'Til she hears ol' Rover bar
k. (Chorus)

Possum up a 'simmon tree,
Raccoon on the ground,
Raccoon say to the possum,
"Won't you shake them 'simmons down?"
(Chorus)

Jaybird died of the whoopin' cough,
Sparrow died of the colic.
'Long come a frog with a fiddle on his back
Inquirin' his way to the frolic.
(Chorus)

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Alex
O..O
=o=

19 Oct 00 - 10:43 PM (#323093)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Little Neophyte

Thanks Alex, I really appreciate the quick service.
I'll go print it off and start playing it right now.

Bonnie

19 Oct 00 - 10:45 PM (#323094)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: catspaw49

Hey Bonnie.....and thanks Alex.......but its in the DT!!! You have to get the accent right...Check under: "BILE DEM CABBAGE DOWN"

Spaw

19 Oct 00 - 10:47 PM (#323096)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: mousethief

Not a problem! There's little enough I can really do to help people here, compared to all y'all have taught me. Glad to add a little in the credit column when I can.

Alex
O..O
=o=

19 Oct 00 - 10:48 PM (#323098)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: dick greenhaus

Ah, the problems of searching on dialect. Try a search on "cabbage".

19 Oct 00 - 10:56 PM (#323100)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Little Neophyte

I think I need a West Virginia translator is what I need.
First I tried to understand what on earth Dwight Diller was saying on his beginner's banjo video I was watching......."Why now wees goin to learn 'Boy and Dem Cabbage Town'.
Well at least thats what I heard until I asked around just so I could respectfully request the lyric on the Mudcat.

Bonnie

19 Oct 00 - 11:02 PM (#323103)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: GUEST,CLETUS

Miz Bonnie, Iduh bin rite prowed ta hep ya iffen yuda axt me. I allus trys ta hep ennywayz I can an I doan holt withun nem wuns whut doant.

CLETUS

19 Oct 00 - 11:11 PM (#323112)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Little Neophyte

Cletus thanks, next time I will come find you.
Won't be too hard, I can smell you a country away.

Did you notice some of these lyrics?

Took my gal to the blacksmith shop
To have her mouth made small
She turned around a time or two
And swallowed shop and all


Sometimes I wonder why I took up the banjo.

Bonnie

20 Oct 00 - 03:54 AM (#323229)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Wolfgang

Alex,
you're in my hall of fame of Mudcat records now. We had already a zero minutes response delay (no lyrics, no clicky), a two minutes response delay (clicky), a three minutes response delay (lyrics with line breaks), a three minutes response delay (2 links) but as far as I know we had not yet a three minutes response delay with clicky and lyrics.
And, Little Neo, I have never seen yet a quicker 'thank you' than yours.

Wolfgang

20 Oct 00 - 04:35 AM (#323239)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Sourdough

And then there is:

My gal ran around the barn
I run out to meet 'er
She pulled up her petticoats
And I pulled out .... for Georgia.

Sourdough

20 Oct 00 - 02:17 PM (#323451)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Little Neophyte

You know what guys, I never realized there are lots of songs I can sing to this tune.
Why I could sing 'That Good Old Mountain Dew' if I wanted to. But personally I would like to sing 'Traveling That Highway Home'. I really like that song. I was given that suggestion by a guardian angel.
Then I can avoid thoughts of men abusing their women.

Wolfgang, the reason we responded so quicky to this thread is because all of us did a line of coke before getting On-Line.

Bonnie

20 Oct 00 - 10:13 PM (#323736)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: MarkS

And don't forget
I bought my gal a bicycle
She learned to ride it well
Till she rode into a telephone pole
And broke it all....to pieces

MarkS

03 Jun 06 - 11:03 PM (#1752501)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: GUEST,Jeff Roe Hartford Mi.

As a kid I only knew one verse to boil them cabbage down. It was highly localized. My family living in and around Climax Mi. near Battle creek. The verse went ( Badger went to battle Creek, He fell down on his back, Lucy hit him with a club and made his ole head crack)   jethro53@netzero.com

04 Jun 06 - 02:00 PM (#1752824)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: GUEST,Jim

The higher up the mountain
The greener grows the grass
Down came a billie goat
Sliding on his overcoat.

04 Jun 06 - 02:23 PM (#1752838)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Amos

Of all the birdies in the sky
I love the mallard duck.
He flies above the desert sands
And watches people holdin' hands.


Of all the fishes in the sea
I love the stripey bass.
He climbs up in a beechy tree
And slides down on his hands and knees.

04 Jun 06 - 02:33 PM (#1752841)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: Louie Roy

Little Neophyte,if you are looking for a recording I can MP3 you one if you will PM me your email address.Louie Roy

04 Jun 06 - 08:41 PM (#1753023)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: GUEST,Joe_F

Evidently, one may steal any stanza from "Cindy" or "Old Joe Clark", with a good chance that one is merely stealing it back.

Amos's second stanza is an abridgement (for the sake of the meter, I dare say) of

Of all the fishes of the sea, The strangest is the bass. It climbs into the tops of trees And slides down on its hands and knees To frolic in the grass.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

||: If you think you've said something smart about the mind-body problem, try it out on the wave-water problem. :||

17 Aug 16 - 07:34 PM (#3805640)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Boil Them Cabbage Down
From: GUEST,keberoxu

The 20 Oct 2000 post from MarkS rings a bell!

I grew up with the comedy sketch, built around The Cabbage Song, by the Smothers Brothers, and Tommy Smothers belted out that very verse about crashing the bicycle into a telephone pole and breaking it all to pieces.