Walt Kelly’s comic strip featured Pogo, the possum, and other characters from Okefenokee Swamp.

I grew up with this comic strip; it started in 1949 (the year I was born) and continued throughout my childhood. Pogo, Peanuts, and Mad Magazine…what a combo. My mom had every Pogo book ever published, I think.

Okay, what could we do at a square dance? Buddy Weaver released a version of “Deck the Halls” this year; one could do it today using the words for “Deck Us All With Boston Charlie”.

There’s always “Swamp Thing” for patter, and Hanhurst lists a couple of records with possum in the title.

And then there’s old time patter:

Chicken on a fence and possum on a rail
Take your honey and away you sail.

Raccoon’s tail got a ring around;
Possum’s tail is bare;
Rabbit ain’t got no tail at all,
Just a little old hunk of hair