Big-Eyed Rabbit

DESCRIPTION: "The rabbit is the kind of thing What travels in the dark, Never knows when danger's round...." "Big-eyed rabbit, Boo! Boo!" "The rabbit came to my house, Thought he'd come to see me, When I come to find him out, He'd 'suaded my wife to leave me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Richardson/Spaeth-AmericanMountainSongs)
KEYWORDS: animal infidelity
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Richardson/Spaeth-AmericanMountainSongs, p. 100, "Big-Eyed Rabbit" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4200
NOTES [30 words]: Roud lumps Richardson/Spaeth-AmericanMountainSongs's piece with a number of other "big-eyed rabbit" songs that share the title but seem to me to have rather different intents. - RBW
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File: Rich100

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