Okay, back on subject.

In August 2004, I posted a comment on Lyr Req: Mr. Rabbit thread.cfm?threadid=48941#1250694 whichcontains two other old African American Rabbit songs both from Thomas W. Talley's 1922 collection "Negro Folk Songs". Those songs are titled "Rabbit Hash" and "Rabbit Soup".

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Also, Dorothy Scarborough's 1925 book "On The Trail of Negro Folk Songs" has this variant of "Ole Mister Rabbit" that I don't believe is posted in either this thread or the Lyr Req: Mr Rabbit thread:

OLE MISTER RABBIT
Ole Mister Rabbit,
You're in a mighty habit
Gwine in mah garden,
Cuttin' down mah cabbage.
Um-hum-um-hum.

Ole Mister Rabbit,
Your hair looks brown,
You'se gwine so fas'
You'se hittin' de groun'.
Um-hum-um-hum.

[Scarborough's notation indicates that this was sent in by Wirt Williams, of Mississippi, as sung by Anna Gwinn Pickins]

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Here's two other fragments of rabbit songs that Scarborough includes in that book:

BRA' RABBIT {OYSCHA'}
Bra' Rabbit, wa''ere da do dere?
"I da pickin' oyscha' fa' young gal.
Da oyscha' bit mah finger,
Da young gal tek dat fa' laugh at."

[noted as sung rather fast, given by Nuss Enilie Walter, of Charleston, South Carolina, {sung} in the Gullah dialect]

MET MISTER RABBIT ONE NIGHT
Met Mister Rabbit one night,
all dressed in a plug hat.
He turned his nose up in the air,
Said, "I'se gwine to Julia's ball,
So good night, possums all".

[noted as sent in by Lydia Gumbel of Straight College, New Orleans, and described as a Creole song]