Five Pounds of Possum

Traditional

Key of C · Chords: I II IV V

# Tabbed By: Brian M
# Reviewed by: Cade T.

Verse

   C                       F           C
My children are hungry, my dog needs a bone.
                         D7               G
I'm out of a job now, so I'm just drivin' home.
   C                        F          C
An hour after sundown, when what to my delight,
                                    G            C
There's five pounds of possum in my headlights tonight.

Chorus

        C                           F            C
There's five pounds of possum in my headlights tonight.
                             D7              G
If I can run him over, every thing’ll be all right.
      C                       F         C
We'll have some possum gravy, oh what a sight;
                                    G            C
There's five pounds of possum in my headlights tonight.

Verse

Won't have to clean no chicken, won't have to open no cans.
Just a little bit closer, and I'll have him in my hands.
I think the time has come now, to go from "dim" to "bright."
There's five pounds of possum in my headlights tonight.

Chorus

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