Talking Blues

Raccoon you better be cool

Thought I saw you on Broadway

Eating King Fish’s barbecue

Some people claim raccoon you pretty

Swear raccoon tame like a kitty

But raccoon bites you if you get too close

I saw raccoon on Lenox Avenue

Stealing milk from a baby

Thought I saw a black cat on the corner

But it was nothing but old raccoon

Raccoon let me school you

Raccoon you know you too country

You better leave the city

Raccoon they got rats in New York City

Big as you and just as ornery

Nobody in Harlem studying you raccoon

So you better go about your business

Raccoon you better get wise

Look what playing possum got the possum