Story Behind the Song
When the potato was just a nodule on his mother's root, his dad took him 'huntin' at night down in the river bottoms. Potato wrote this song for The Bean, so she would know not to go there. He was playing the jaws harp and sitting under the mullberry trees at the time of the inspiration.
The meaning---try to avoid encouraging packs of dogs to tear woodland creatures into shreds. Written in one day. Recorded in two.
Lyrics
(Down On) Raccoon Creek
1.
I'm goin' down the holler, just follern' my hounds,
listen to 'em yelpin', don't you love that sound?
Gonna catch a 'possom or a big raccoon,
take him home to my mama, have him baked real soon.
It's a warm summer evenin' on Raccoon Creek,
I've got good corn whiskey and a stump for seat.
Sit a spell and hava a smoke beside the fire,
The dogs'll do the chasin' and I won't get tired...down on Racoon Creek
2.
I run the Caney River when I'm huntin' frogs,
and Raccoon Creek when I take my dogs.
Hear them redbones singin' out sweet and low,
They'll follow that critter, where ever she goes.
It's a hot summer ev'nin' and I'm dry as can be.
I'll have a'sup o' lightnin', take a leak on a tree.
I'll hunt this holler 'til the day I die,
it's how my daddy taught me and I don't care why...hey plunk that magic twanger, froggy.
3.
Now when the hounds catch 'im, gonna chew 'im real good,
and I might whomp 'im with a big hunk'a wood.
I'll jump right on 'im 'til his eyes bug out,
and tote 'im on home by the end of his snout.
I'll hunt ole 'Coon Creek until I die.
It's how my daddy taught me, but I don't know why.
There's a big supermarket right down the street;
they even carry 'possom and froggy meat---got your filets of froggy meat...Down on Racoon Creek.
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