Lyrics and information copied from The Fiddler's Companion:

BIG-EYED RABBIT [2]. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Alabama, Mississippi, western North Carolina. A Major. AEAE (e.g. Tommy Jarrell) or Standard. ABB (irregular 'A' part). Recorded by Quitman, Mississippi, fiddler Charles Long in 1939 in the field for the Library of Congress.
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Yonder comes a rabbit,
Fast as he can run,
If I see another one,
Gonna shoot him with a double-barrel gun.
Gonna shoot him with my gun.
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Yonder comes a rabbit,
Slippin' through the sand,
Shoot that rabbit, he don't care,
Fry him in my pan,
Fry him in my pan.
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Chorus:
Rockin' in a weary land (x2)
or Big-eyed rabbit's gone, gone (x2)
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Yonder comes my darlin',
How do I know?
Know her by her bright blue eyes,
Shinein' bright like gold,
Shinein' bright like gold. (Tommy Jarrell/Plank Road String Band).
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Bob Woodcock (Pa.) supplied this verse (a coney is an old English term for a rabbit-Coney Island=Rabbit Island):
Coney on the island, coney on the run,
I'll get that rabbit in my pan, I'll shoot him with my gun
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Source for notated version: Liz Slade (Yorktown, New York) [Kuntz]. Kuntz, Private Collection. Spandaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; pg. 38. Carryon Records 005, "The Renegades" (1993). County 401, "The Stripling Brothers." County CO-CD-2711, Kirk Sutphin - "Old Roots and New Branches" (1994). Mountain 310, Tommy Jarrell - "Joke on the Puppy" (1976. Learned brom his father.). Vocalation 5412 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Ala., played in C Major) {1929}.

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T:Big Eyed Rabbit [2]
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WHISKEY JOE. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA, Northeast Tennessee. A northeast Tennesse title for this tune, which is related to "Big-Eyed Rabbit."

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