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Old Mother Hippletoe: Rural and Urban Children's Songs New World NW 291 [vinyl record]

Play Party Songs

Band 7 Rabbit in the Pea Patch Angie Clark, vocal. Recorded 1937 in Mullins, S.C., by John A. Lomax. Library of Conress Archive of American Folk Song AFS 1030 B3

In "Rabbit in the Pea Patch," couples skip hand in hand around a lone boy, who steals the girl of his choice. Her partner then becomes the loner.

RABBIT IN THE PEA PATCH
Rabbit in the pea patch, shoo-lye love, (3 times) Shoo-lye love, my darling
You love Miss Dreslo (or other name), shoo-lye lover, …
You stole my partner,lye love, … But I'll get another one, shoo-lye love, … Pretty as the other one, shoo-lye love,…