Lyrics
(Folk song)
Rabbit in the hollow sits and sleeps
Little rabbit, have a care,
Quickly to your home you must run run run.
Hunter in the forest nearer creeps,
Deep within the hollow there,
Quickly to your home you must run run run.
Game
Formation: Students in a circle with one student standing in the center (“Rabbit”), and another student standing outside the circle (“Hunter”).
Students sing as Rabbit pretends to sleep. On “run run run,” Hunter chases Rabbit. Students in the circle let the Rabbit move around, but they try to stop the Hunter. When Rabbit is caught, a new Rabbit and new Hunter are chosen.
See also
- Subject: rabbits
- Activity: circle game
- Harmony: I, IV, V
- Melody: ascending pentascale
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scale: hexachord
- Tones: drmfsld’
Source: Twice 55 games with music: The red book, Peter William Dykema, 1924
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
In danish:
Haren hist i grøften sad og sov.
Er du syg, du lille mand,
at du ikke hoppe kan?
Hare, hop! Hare, hop! Hare, hop!
Hare, tag for hunden dig i agt!
Thi den har så skarp en tand,
hvormed den dig bide kan.
Hare, løb! Hare, løb! Hare, løb!