Listen to Bile Em
Cabbage Down Midi File
Bile Em Cabbage Down is a down home fiddle tune that is fun and
easy to play. It uses just four notes: Fa, Mi, Re, and Do. We're playing it in the key of
G Major (Reminder-The word Major tells us that Do is the hometone, and G means that Do
is the note G. Easy, right?), so the corresponding notes are C, B, A, and G.
Here is Bile Em Cabbage down written out. Click on it to listen to it. You will
hear an introduction, and then the song repeated once. Right click on the music
below and you can save the midi file (the music itself) to your computer.
Words to Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
| Chorus Bile 'em cabbage down, down, Bake 'em bisquits brown, brown. Only tune I ever learned was Bile 'em cabbage down. |
Verses 1 June bug he has wings of gold, the firefly wings of flame. Bedbug's got no wings at all but he gets there just the same. |
| Verse 2 Love it is a killing fit, When beauty hits a blossom. And if you want you're finger bit Just poke it at a possum. |
Verse 3 Raccoon and the possum, Rackin' cross the prairie. Raccoon ask the possum, Did she want to marry? |
| Form: Chorus-V1-Chorus-V2-Chorus-V3-Chorus | |