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| '''BIG-EYED RABBIT [2]'''. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA; Alabama, Mississippi, western North Carolina. A Major. AEae (e.g. Tommy Jarrell, Kirk Sutphin) or Standard tuning. ABB (irregular 'A' part): AABB (Silberberg). Recorded by Quitman, Mississippi, fiddler Charles Long in 1939 in the field for the Library of Congress.
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| ''Yonder comes a rabbit, ''<br>
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| ''Gonna shoot him with a double-barrel gun.''<br>
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| ''Gonna shoot him with my gun.''
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| ''Yonder comes a rabbit, ''<br>
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| ''Shoot that rabbit, he don't care,''<br>
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| ''Fry him in my pan,'' <br>
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| ''Rockin' in a weary land'' (x2)<br>
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| or ''Big-eyed rabbit's gone, gone'' (x2)
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| ''Yonder comes my darlin','' <br>
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| ''Know her by her bright blue eyes,'' <br>
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| ''Shinein' bright like gold.'' (Tommy Jarrell/Plank Road String Band).
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| Bob Woodcock (Pa.) supplied this verse (a coney is an old English term for a rabbit-Coney Island=Rabbit Island):
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| ''Coney on the island, coney on the run,''<br>
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| ''I'll get that rabbit in my pan, I'll shoot him with my gun.''
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| The tune, as recorded in the 1920's by the Alabama old-time duo the Stripling Brothers, shows up in some remarkable places. The Striplings' record was reissued (as were several American old-time sides) in Québec, albeit with a new title in French. In the case of "Big-Eyed Rabbit," the tune was renamed "Le reel de la Malbaie." The melody was also picked up in Ireland where it was rendered as a barn dance, where, for example the famous Ulster fiddler Sean Maguire recorded it as the first tune of his "Canadian Barndance" (a Canadian Barn Dance is a type of progressive couples dance popular in Ireland and Scotland-many 2/4 tunes have been the vehicle for the dance).
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| ''Sources for notated versions'': Liz Slade (Yorktown, New York) [Kuntz]; Bruce Reid [Silberberg].
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| ''Printed sources:'' Kuntz, Private Collection. Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 8. Spandaro (10 Cents a Dance), 1980; p. 38.
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| ''Recorded sources:'' Carryon Records 005, "The Renegades" (1993). County 401, "The Stripling Brothers." County CO-CD-2711, Kirk Sutphin - "Old Roots and New Branches" (1994). Mountain 310, Tommy Jarrell - "Joke on the Puppy" (1976. Learned brom his father.). Vocalion 5412 (78 RPM), Stripling Brothers (Ala., played in C Major) {1929}.
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