Boil dem cabbage biography
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Cabbage
Leafy vegetable in the flowering plant family Brassicaceae
This article is about the vegetable. For other uses, see Cabbage (disambiguation).
Cabbage, comprising several cultivars of Brassica oleracea, is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads. It is descended from the wild cabbage (B.oleracea var. oleracea), and belongs to the "cole crops" or brassicas, meaning it is closely related to broccoli and cauliflower (var. botrytis); Brussels sprouts (var. gemmifera); and Savoy cabbage (var. sabauda).
A cabbage generally weighs between and 1, grams (1 and 2lb). Smooth-leafed, firm-headed green cabbages are the most common, with smooth-leafed purple cabbages and crinkle-leafed savoy cabbages of both colours being rarer. Under conditions of long sunny days, such as those found at high northern latitudes in summer, cabbages can grow quite large. As of [update],
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Bile Them Cabbage Down, aka Boil Them Cabbage Down, is an American folk song and fiddle tune. A hoecake is a thin, flat cake made from cornmeal, originally baked on a hoe. According to some, this tune can be traced to an English country dance called “Smiling Polly,” first printed in As it has been played and sung throughout the South, the song integrates African and European musical elements: banjo and fiddle – slave, minstrel, and mountaineer.
Lyrics
chorus:
Bile them cabbage down, down
Bake that hoecake brown
The only song that I can sing is Bile Them Cabbage Down
verses:
Raccoon has a bushy tail
Possums tail is bare
Rabbits got no tail at all
But a little bunch of hair
Raccoon and the possum
Racin cross the prairie
Raccoon ax the possum
Did she want to marry?
Possum is a cunnin thing
He travels in the dark
And never thinks to curl his tail
Till he hears old Rover bark
Possum up a simmon tree
Raccoon on the ground
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The title Boil `em kål Down speaks of cooking cabbage bygd boiling it. Cabbage could have meant any leafy green vegetable such as collards, kale etc. The Southern style of cooking greens that have been cooked down into a gravy came with the arrival of the African slaves to the southern colonies. They boiled these greens down until they were soft, smoothing out their bitter flav