Version 1
Lyrics
(American folk song)
Old Mister Rabbit, you’ve got a mighty habit
Of jumping in the garden and eating all my cabbage.
Recorder Notes: E, G, A, B
Version 2
See also
- Country: US
- Subject: gardens / rabbits / spring
- Form: ABA
- Harmony: major & minor / i, VII / Orff / ostinati
- Melody: E,G,A,B
- Meter: 2
- Scale: tetratonic
- Tempo: fast & slow
- Tones: l,drm
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
- Kodaly-based interactive curriculum with this song
YouTube
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- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas + Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
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