The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65694   Message #1085835
Posted By: Jim Dixon
04-Jan-04 - 01:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Run Rabbit Run
Subject: Lyr Add: RUN RABBIT RUN (Noel Gay & Ralph Butler)
RUN RABBIT RUN
Written by Noel Gay & Ralph Butler
As sung by Flanagan & Allen on Decca (3184 A), 1940, which you can hear at the Internet Archive.

On the farm, every Friday,
On the farm, it's rabbit-pie day,
So, ev'ry Friday that ever comes along,
I get up early and sing this little song:

Run, rabbit! Run, rabbit! Run! Run! Run!
Run, rabbit! Run, rabbit! Run! Run! Run!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! goes the farmer's gun.
Run, rabbit! Run, rabbit! Run! Run! Run! Run!

Run, rabbit! Run, rabbit! Run! Run! Run!
Don't give the farmer his fun, fun, fun.
He'll get by without his rabbit pie,
So run, rabbit! Run, rabbit! Run! Run! Run!

[Flanagan & Allen then repeat the last 2 verses, with one of them doing a sort of scat counterpoint.]

[The following verses are copied from ingeb.org. I don't know their source.]

Run, run rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down; it's time to start another one.

For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race toward an early grave.

[Recorded by Flanagan & Allen, Chas & Dave, Bob Crosby, Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters, and Harry Roy & His Orchestra]