Raccoon out a-choppin’ mud

voiceCollected by Irene Carlisle Transcribed by Nathaniel Lucy Sung by Charles Cagle Woolsey, Arkansas June 20, 1951 Reel 131, Item 7 Raccoon and Possum Raccoon out a-choppin’ mud The possum’s out a-haulin’ My old hound’s a-going at the fence Killin’ hisself a-bawlin’ Raccoon up persimmon tree The possum’s on the ground Possum says son-of-a-gun And shake them ‘simmons downFunding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation