I have tried but can't locate an article that I had which was written by a Black author in the 1960s. The author wrote lamenting the fact that Black children in her community only knew a few Rabbit songs and their accompanying games {usually the rhymes were said as a prelude to a chasing game}.

I think that few children of any race know these songs now, or if they do, they know them only as poems in books of American folk song books. And seldom do these books provide any acknowledgment of these songs African American roots.

So, without further comment, here is one example of a Rabbit rhyme:


ADD Lyrics: I'LL GET YOU RABBIT
Thomas W. Talley, "Negro Folk Rhymes", p. 116

"Rabbit! Rabbit! You'se a mighty habit,
A-runnin' through de grass,
Eatin' up my cabbages;
But I'll git you shore at las'

Rabbit! Rabbit! Ole rabbit in de bottons,
A-playin' in de san',
By tomorrow mornin'
You'll be in my fryin' pan."