Possum Up A Simmon Tree chords by
Merle Travis
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Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
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Ooh, pretty little girl, who lies at Jane
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By lies, that pretty little girl,
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she died on the train
Well, sir, here's an old song
called A Possum Up in the Cemetery
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You know,
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there's 40 ,000 different versions
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of this old country song
I guess maybe you might say
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that up in Kentucky
they had a different way of
singing it over and over and holler
But in my particular holler,
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here's sort of the way they sung about
the possum up in the simmon tree.
Possum up in the simmon tree,
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raccoon on the ground,
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raccoon said you son of a gun ,
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shake them simmons down,
possum begin to shake
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and the simmons begin to fall,
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raccoon said you son of a gun ,
I didn't want them all, whoo,
Liza's pretty little girl, whoopie Liza Jane,
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My Liza's a pretty little girl,
she died on the train
Woo, pretty little girl, Liza Jane
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My Liza's a pretty little girl,
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F
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she died on the train
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Oh folks down in Georgia
raising sugarcane
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Making the barrel of lasses
to sweeten little Liza Jane
Her nose is like a cherry
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and her chair is like a rose
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I love my pretty little gal goodness
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gracious
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Eb
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She's got a
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head like a coffee pot,
nose like a spout,
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and a mouth like an old fireplace
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the ashes all raked out
Verse 2
Went to see my Liza
She met me at the door
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Shoes and stockings in her hand
Verse 3
And her feet all over the floor
Verse 4
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Whoopie, Liza's pretty little girl
Verse 5
Whoo, Liza Jane
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My Liza's pretty little girl
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She died on the train
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Ooh, Liza's a pretty little girl
My Liza Jane
Ooh, Bill Liza's a pretty little girl
But she can't get to heaven
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by ridin' on a train

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