
Lyrics
(American folk song)
1. Old Molly Hare, What you doing there?
Running through the cotton patch as fast as I can tear.
2. Old Molly Hare, what you doing there?
Sitting in my fireplace a-smoking my cigar.
3. Old Molly Hare, what you doing there?
Sitting on a haystack a-shooting at a bear.
4. Old Molly Hare, what you doing there?
Sitting on a butter-plate a-picking out a hair.
5. Old Molly Hare, your tail’s too short.
Yes, doggone it, I can tuck it out of sight.
6. Dogs say “boo,” and they bark too.
I haven’t got the time for to talk to you.
7. Riding of a goat and leading of a sheep,
I won’t be back till the middle of the week.
See also
- Subject: rabbits
- Activities: movement
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 2
- Scale: major
- Tempo: fast & slow
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
- more info / more lyrics / slightly different version
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song


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