Ye godz I got to Ray D.s first riposte and choked on my coffee...gee, your O'Possums are seriously angsty! Well, so are our Brushtail Possums (not Irish) but the fruit-stealing Ring Tail Possum is quite cute and readily tamed, and when we get to Pig My Possum, well, your would just melt and there's no way you'd be called a crank wanker! What a glorious song.! Remind me to have plenty of mouthwash ready if Ray D ever comes visiting (mind you, Mr Staples, you earnt all those endearments he gently tossed at you!)

Haha. This is so funny. Great story. I am glad that I have headphones on and didn’t just willynilly let this song loose on my speakers around my kids. Hahah. That is a tight bluegrass opossum band you got over there.

I sure there are some sort of life lessons about when two people are in the same situation with very different views and end up parting ways without every truly understanding the other side BUT I am going to choose to believe that John found a opossum in the garbage cans of his hillbilly shack. 😉🎶🙌

Where have you guys been my whole FAWM? So glad to hear you both singing and playing together. Now I aspire to doing a duet with Ray some day, or maybe with some of Ray’s near kin who scurry around in our walls. This one belongs on an album called Who Owns Who? along with Muppet Redux by @johnnywallflower Looking forward to the next installment. Hope the duet becomes an annual tradition.

Oh my goodness this is rich!! What a wonderful way to start my day! I had just been listening to @johnstaples beautiful "To Die" and to land here right away after that is , well, a bit of a culture shock! I love everything about this, from the perfect banjo plucking (is that you, @opossum ?) to the playful interchange in the vocals! And I'm sure every possum I ever threw out of the basement has uttered these very words to me!! (Though "crank wanker" was particularly funny!!). Great job, you two!!

That is an instant classic! Laughed out loud, listened to it again and laughed out loud again. I need to ramp up my vocabulary to include some of the wonderful words in this song. Yep, agree with Bill - funniest song of the month! Cheers

I waited for that collab for a long time. Now I want a video with a cartoon opossum like the old Disney movies. Cool story!

Working my way through all the folks I missed and I land on this collab made in hillbilly heaven. Y’all play a pretty mean banjo for a rodent 😎

This is the first song I'm listening to this morning and it already feels like a good day ! The banjo set the mood on shiny right from the beguining. And I love the humor and the misunderstanding story. I'll be back to your places for chicken or doughnuts ! #tit4tat1

Oh my goodness; how much fun! And he may be cute, but he can sure cuss! I love "I am not the kind of animal/ that you would like to know" early in the interchange. (and also, that John doesn't speak opossum, and so can't actually understand what the critter is saying). I also like the line-by-line interchange. This just kept making me laugh. (I love the excellent pet vs. "I'll kill you while you're sleeping." And I'm glad he was just playing possum . . .

This is a crazy ride - very fun, very silly! I do enjoy carefully considered swearing in a song. ... #tit4tat

Oh this is crazy clever quirky potty mouth possum fun! I love the bluegrass and this is a great fun! We have our visiting possum every night who enjoys some dinner with us! I love the vocals on this! Such a great duet!!! I’m so glad the possum got away!!! Love this!

This is the BEST. Hilariously creative, great music and just plain well done. Entertainment wise, this would be my top vote for this FAWM. Pure brilliance…

Another one well done. You keep me laughing with you wit.

I belly laughed the first time Ray came in! And then again and again and again What a story there is here! The music is perfect to accompany. Now I’ve never had an opossum get in my trash - is that more of a southern thing? Our trash pandas are raccoons and I think we all have a story about them…maybe not as deranged as this one 😆

I can't remember when I genuinely laughed out loud at a song, but this one really got me! Of course, I've known a possum or two in my time, but I don't speak opossum either, and I had NO idea! I need a sequel. One that includes donuts!

Oh great fun! I needed this right now, rather depressed, but no one can be sad listening to this. I admire this possum.

The ultimate collab I didn't know that I needed. Two of FAWMs biggest names all together. The bluest of bluegrass and sass. I'm glad Ray didn't die in this one. It always seems like it's a murder ballad involving trucks in Ray's songs.

This is just brilliant - biggest smiles for weeks here in my old cabin on the Irish west (and wet) coast - no opossums here though sadly.

Wow, the banjo playing in this is amazing and great production. I hope when you see that critter again, you should lecture him on his language! LOL! This is a great idea, a duet, so well done. The lyrics are very vivid and clear, might need to lay out a trap and move that smelly rodent to a church. LOL!

It's giving HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (complimentary). Beautiful technical execution, fun little back-and-forth ready for live call-and-response.

Beautifully done bluegrass. Awesome collab for you two! Which one of you wrote the lyrics? Totally hilarious and brilliant. Awesome sing-off betwixt yoos toos.. I can't get enuf... gotta go back for anuther listen...and then prolly anuther.. Awesome work, stunning and the radio stations only wish they had songs this enjoyable to play.

Bluegrass Nirvana, always a treat to hear good bluegrass pickin’ And the story is one for the ages.

A collab for the ages. Great Ray choruses/responses Favorite bit: John: such an excellent pet I'm keeping Ray: I will kill you while you're sleeping

That chorus (i.e., the "Ray" parts)... all three of them... just glorious. So very, very glorious. The duet I didn't know I needed, but now I'll never forget!

A classic Posssum song. Never expected to hear a duo song! Fine banjo picking and hysteric lyrics!

This was a joy to listen to. Awesome mix, tapped my foot the entire time. Awesome collab! A match made in heaven (or attic?)

As someone who appreciates a good sense of humor, combined with some serious musical chops, I approve of this song! I've been wondering if you guys are a group of session musicians, having some anonymous fun!

Quite the tale from two very different perspectives! Love the banjo!

OMG I needed that laugh today. Well done--so creative & entertaining!!

LOL! This song is well written and so funny! And I love the music.

This song is TRASH!!

I mean, it's "trash" in the sense that raccoons--and raccoon-lovers (and I am a dues-not-paying member of the Facebook group that honors Ray O. Possum)--would love it.

Great banjo and nice choice for Ray's voice. I guess a lifetime of eating garbage can do that to one's vocal chords... ❤️

Oh you guyssssss!! Huge grin, multiple lols! This is a musical DELIGHT and I love it 😁 It’s perfection. Gonna listen again. Pure FAWM joy ❤️

this is a gas. what a story fabulously told. i love ray's vulgar profanity. it is such a contrast with john's myopic friendliness. the storytelling is so slick that i was even surprised when the apparently dead opossum jumped up and cursed his way out of the song. great job guys,and you have my vote for funniest song of the month.

So funny! I knew you were no match for him John

Oh please, I am dying, cannot breathe! The back and forth is chef's kiss! Can't pick a favourite line but "cute, a bit dramatic / poop all over your attic" has to be up there. Also now can't help but wonder how other animals regard us. Cats: "stop petting me and make with the food, sucker" etc

This is just perfection. The backing track is just country bluegrass heaven. Upbeat jingle jangly goodness while im drinking coffee. Then to the lyrics and back and forth between you both - the story is hilarious, and you both have delivered it so well. Great collab - left me wanting more - a sequel??