Chords for The Coon Huntin' Monkey (Live (1975 Picayune))
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When I was growing up, word got out that the best coon hunter in the world
McComb, Mississippi.
writer,
Don't you ever say or tell nobody that there is, we don't believe it none.
us up a little contest.
a night's hunt than y'all will.
driving up in his pickup truck to East Fork School, that's where we met.
Fella led to Engate down on one of them pickups, and there was a cage,
McComb, Mississippi.
writer,
Don't you ever say or tell nobody that there is, we don't believe it none.
us up a little contest.
a night's hunt than y'all will.
driving up in his pickup truck to East Fork School, that's where we met.
Fella led to Engate down on one of them pickups, and there was a cage,
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When I was growing up, word got out that the best coon hunter in the world
was a fella that lived at East McComb, Mississippi.
_ And we done sent him word by the mail writer,
there ain't no coon dog in the world good as Highball.
Don't you ever say or tell nobody that there is, we don't believe it none.
_ _ _ _ Well, we got us up a little contest.
They said, yeah, this fella will catch more coons on a night's hunt than y'all will.
_ Well, he come driving up in his pickup truck to East Fork School, that's where we met. _
Fella led to Engate down on one of them pickups, and there was a cage,
and sitting up in the back of that pickup was a big brown monkey.
_ _ _ Marcel said, whoo, don't let that thing out, said he looks, ah, said keep him in there.
Said he looks too much like folks to be getting out of there.
You leave him up in that pickup truck. _ _
Fella said, y'all don't understand, I use a dog with the monkey.
_ _ I just want one good tree dog, and I'll show you how to catch more raccoons.
The hides are expensive, _ and I make a good living with that monkey, coon hunting.
_ _ Marcel said, I ain't taking my dog with that trashy thing.
_ _ _ _ Clovis said, I'll take old June and we'll go.
_ So all of us followed, and old June hadn't gone very far, and she treed.
Now any coon hunter will know that sometimes a raccoon will get up in a tree and he'll tap the tree.
Go out on a limb and jump into another tree.
Go out on a limb and jump into another one, and come down way out yonder.
Well, that's the art of being a good coon dog.
You circle around, make for sure he ain't tapped the tree, and he's up there if you say he's there.
_ Well, old June treed to turn that monkey loose, had him on a chain,
and people, he had a flashlight in his left hand and a pistol in [B] his right hand.
_ _ And [Eb] up that tree he went, boogity, [N] boogity, boogity, right up that tree,
went all over the tree shining that light and had that gun. _
Looking everywhere.
_ Out on each limb, shining, shining, shining, and what he did, he find the coon and shoot him, and the coon falls out.
Well, he hadn't found no coon. _
_ Down the tree he come.
_ Thumb cocked that pistol, put it up to old June's head, Clovis' dog, and said, boom, just killed him.
_ _ Graveyard dead right there.
_ Clovis said, man, what in the world do you mean?
That trashy thing has killed my dog. _
_ _ And the fellow what owned the monkey said, Clovis, there ain't but one thing that monkey hates worse than a raccoon,
and that's a lying coon dog.
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was a fella that lived at East McComb, Mississippi.
_ And we done sent him word by the mail writer,
there ain't no coon dog in the world good as Highball.
Don't you ever say or tell nobody that there is, we don't believe it none.
_ _ _ _ Well, we got us up a little contest.
They said, yeah, this fella will catch more coons on a night's hunt than y'all will.
_ Well, he come driving up in his pickup truck to East Fork School, that's where we met. _
Fella led to Engate down on one of them pickups, and there was a cage,
and sitting up in the back of that pickup was a big brown monkey.
_ _ _ Marcel said, whoo, don't let that thing out, said he looks, ah, said keep him in there.
Said he looks too much like folks to be getting out of there.
You leave him up in that pickup truck. _ _
Fella said, y'all don't understand, I use a dog with the monkey.
_ _ I just want one good tree dog, and I'll show you how to catch more raccoons.
The hides are expensive, _ and I make a good living with that monkey, coon hunting.
_ _ Marcel said, I ain't taking my dog with that trashy thing.
_ _ _ _ Clovis said, I'll take old June and we'll go.
_ So all of us followed, and old June hadn't gone very far, and she treed.
Now any coon hunter will know that sometimes a raccoon will get up in a tree and he'll tap the tree.
Go out on a limb and jump into another tree.
Go out on a limb and jump into another one, and come down way out yonder.
Well, that's the art of being a good coon dog.
You circle around, make for sure he ain't tapped the tree, and he's up there if you say he's there.
_ Well, old June treed to turn that monkey loose, had him on a chain,
and people, he had a flashlight in his left hand and a pistol in [B] his right hand.
_ _ And [Eb] up that tree he went, boogity, [N] boogity, boogity, right up that tree,
went all over the tree shining that light and had that gun. _
Looking everywhere.
_ Out on each limb, shining, shining, shining, and what he did, he find the coon and shoot him, and the coon falls out.
Well, he hadn't found no coon. _
_ Down the tree he come.
_ Thumb cocked that pistol, put it up to old June's head, Clovis' dog, and said, boom, just killed him.
_ _ Graveyard dead right there.
_ Clovis said, man, what in the world do you mean?
That trashy thing has killed my dog. _
_ _ And the fellow what owned the monkey said, Clovis, there ain't but one thing that monkey hates worse than a raccoon,
and that's a lying coon dog.
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