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OLD ZIPPY COON Sung by: W.P. Detherow Recorded in Batesville, AR, 6/25/52 (Mr. Detherow: "This is another song for children.") Way down south, Lou Tesky had a nigger, Big as this child, perhaps a little bigger. Old Zippy Coon, the folks do call him; If I ever run across him, I mean for to maul him. I started out early one morning coonin'; Hadn't went far 'til I seen old Zip a-comin'. I pulled off my coat, laid down my ammunition. "Say, Colonel Poppy, I'll cool your ambition." We fought there for about a half a day, 'Til we thought it was time to quit it. Looked around our heads, and, gosh, they was missin'! He'd bit off my head, and I'd swallowed his'n. |
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