Annotation:Possum Pie

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POSSUM PIE. AKA and see "Carve dat Possum (1)," "Bile Them Cabbage Down." Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One Part. The tune is identified by Thede as a Negro 'banjo tune' and the precursor to the fiddle tune "Bile Them Cabbage Down."

Carve that 'possum Hannah,
Carve that possum soon;
For the pan is ready,
And I am the spoon.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; p. 69.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]

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