FIVE POUNDS OF POSSUM
The Underwood Family
Also Mudcat Cafe
Chords tabbed by:  Verne Garrison
Banjo Tuned E, Key of D, Capo lst fret

Five Pounds of Possum

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

Chorus:

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

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.