Big Eyed Rabbit
Kerry Blech
>
>Hi folks,
>Looking for lyrics to Big Eyed Rabbit. Any and all. Please e-mail direct to
>Old...@aol.com
>Kerry, any good obscure verses?
Sorry for being so late in "returning your call." Nothing really in
the obscure department.
I have a privately issued Tommy Jarrell songbook, with versions of
his songs collected by Mickey Hartung and the late John Huddle.
The following was transcribed by them from Tommy's singing "Big
Eyed Rabbit" at a 1976 concert at Oberlin College and at the
1976 National Folk Festival at Wolftrap, in Vienna, Virginia.
Yonder comes that rabbit,
A-skippin' through the sand,
Get (Kill) that rabbit; he don't mind;
Fry him in my pan, pan; fry him in my pan.
Rocking in the weary land, land;
Rocking in the weary land.
Yonder comes that rabbit,
Just as hard as he can run,
Yonder comes another one,
Gonna shoot him with my double-barrelled gun, gun;
Shoot him with my double-barrelled gun.
The Big Eyed Rabbit's gone, gone;
Big Eyed Rabbit's gone.
Yonder comes my darlin',
How do you (I) know,
I can tell all by her pretty blue eyes
A-shining bright like gold, gold,
Shining bright like gold.
Norman Edmonds, from Hillsville Virginia, also played it, though
he called it "Rabbit in the Sand." I never heard him nor anyone
in his band sing it though.
Samantha Bumgarner had some other words to a song she sang
(and played) called "Big Eyed Rabbit," with a totally different
melody than Tommy (and Norman) used, but I seem to recall they
would scan to TJ's version. Afraid I don't have those, though.
One of my neighbors, Candy "Chuck" Goldman, sings those lyrics,
but she doesn't have a computer, sorry.
Bob Naess used to sing a line to TJ's version:
"The Big Eyed Rabbit's gone away,
The Big Eyed Rabbit's gone to stay."
Hope this helps,
kerry
--
Blec...@WolfeNet.com
"When you get above the clouds, you can do just as you choose."
- The Rector Trio, Asheville, NC 1930
BanjerBob
>Hi folks,
>Looking for lyrics to Big Eyed Rabbit. Any and all. Please e-mail direct to
>Old...@aol.com
>Kerry, any good obscure verses?
One that Kerry missed that I've heard for years is
"Coney on the island, coney on the run,
I'll get that rabbit in my pan, I'll shoot him with my gun."
A coney is a rabbit (I looked it up...)
I never did understand "Rockin in a weary land...."
Bob Woodcock, Conshohocken, Pa.
"It isn't good because its traditional, its traditional because its good."
Dmarts
<<<<<
whose quote is that?
Dave
Kerry Blech
>
> >Hi folks,
> >Looking for lyrics to Big Eyed Rabbit. Any and all. Please e-mail direct to
> >Old...@aol.com
> >Kerry, any good obscure verses?
>
> One that Kerry missed that I've heard for years is
> "Coney on the island, coney on the run,
> I'll get that rabbit in my pan, I'll shoot him with my gun."
>
> A coney is a rabbit (I looked it up...)
>
> I never did understand "Rockin in a weary land...."
>
"Rockin(g) in a Weary Land" is the title of another
Surry/Grayson/Carroll Counties-axis/triangle tune,
played by manyof the old old-timers down ther, such
as Luther Davis, Bertie Mae Dickens and many others.
I'm not sure specifically what they may have meant by that
phrase (I am sure that Luther could have expounded at
great length about the subject), but I always felt that
it meant finally having a break from the rat-race,
you know, settin' in your old rocking-chair after an
honest day's toil.
Bob, where'd you hear that verse you posted above?
I've never heard that one before.
Regards,
Kerry
Frank Dalton, Library Guy
>> I never did understand "Rockin in a weary land...."
>"Rockin(g) in a Weary Land" is the title of another
>Surry/Grayson/Carroll Counties-axis/triangle tune,
>played by manyof the old old-timers down ther, such
>as Luther Davis, Bertie Mae Dickens and many others.
>I'm not sure specifically what they may have meant by that
>phrase (I am sure that Luther could have expounded at
>great length about the subject), but I always felt that
>it meant finally having a break from the rat-race,
>you know, settin' in your old rocking-chair after an
>honest day's toil.
There's a gospel song, and a floating verst about Jesus being a 'rock in a
weary land'. I always thought that the Surry/Grayson/Carroll title 'Rockin'
In A Weary Land' was some kind of corruption of that phrase. Anybody else
ever thought that?
Frank Dalton, Library Guy
*********************************************
Within the kingdom of every soul,
lie waiting the 3 beasts of humanity:
33, 45 and 78 RPM.
*********************************************
Carl Baron
> There's a gospel song, and a floating verst about Jesus being a 'rock in a
> weary land'. I always thought that the Surry/Grayson/Carroll title 'Rockin'
> In A Weary Land' was some kind of corruption of that phrase. Anybody else
> ever thought that?
>
> Frank Dalton, Library Guy
>
> *********************************************
> Within the kingdom of every soul,
> lie waiting the 3 beasts of humanity:
> 33, 45 and 78 RPM.
> *********************************************
Frank, I think you got it. Though there are other places in the Bible
that use that phrase.
Isaiah 32:1-2 Behold, a king shall reign in righteous and a prince
shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as a hiding place from the
wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place,
as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
The Shadow of a Great Rock In a Weary Land
"From first to last The Mother Church seemed type and shadow of the
warfare between the flesh and Spirit, even that shadow whose substance
is the divine Spirit, imperatively propelling the greatest moral,
physical, civil, and religious reform ever known on earth. In the words
of the prophet: 'The shadow of a great rock in a weary land"' (Pul. p.
20:19).
A Shelter in the Time of Storm
lyrics by Vernon J. Charlesworth (b.1839)
music by Ira D. Sankey (1840-1908)
The Lord's our Rock, in him we hide,
A shelter in the time of storm;
Secure what ever ill betide,
A shelter in the time of storm.
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A wearly land, A wearly land;
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A shelter in the time of storm.
A shade by day, defense by night.
A shelter in the time of storm;
No fears alarm, no foe affright,
A shelter in the time of storm.
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A wearly land, A wearly land;
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A shelter in the time of storm.
The raging storms may round us beat,
A shelter in the time of storm;
We'll never leave our safe retreat,
A shelter in the time of storm.
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A wearly land, A wearly land;
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A shelter in the time of storm.
O Rock Divine, O Refuge dear,
A shelter in the time of storm;
Be thou our helper ever near,
A shelter in the time of storm.
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A wearly land, A wearly land;
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A shelter in the time of storm.
It seems that according to Christians, Jesus "is" the "rock in a weary
land" that is mentioned in the Old Testament.
Carl (with aid from Altavista)
BanjerBob
>>>"It isn't good because its traditional, its traditional because its good."
<<<<<
whose quote is that?>>>>
Dave>>>>
Quote??? What quote???
Really, i lifted from an interview with Jody Stecher in an OTH interview. It
may be time for a new one, but this one it too good to drop.
Bob
Bob Woodcock, Conshohocken, Pa.
BanjerBob
I've never heard that one before.
Regards,
Kerry>>>
I know we did in my band in Lancaster, Pa in the early 70's. I don't recall who
brought it up (too many burnt neurons twixt then and now...).
i do know of one recorded source...A woman named June Maugery- a championship
autoharp player. She did a CD called "Shining Bright Like Gold" some years back
(IMHO, an absoutely stellar recording).
i don't know where she got that verse..I'll have to check the liner notes.
Maybe from me, as we play frequently whe our paths cross...
BTW- I really like you image of "rockin in the weary land."
Lyle Lofgren
<cba...@mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>Isaiah 32:1-2 Behold, a king shall reign in righteous and a prince
>shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as a hiding place from the
>wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place,
>as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
>
Hey, that sounds like King James. Don't you know that they've made
all those re-translations to make the bible more modern and "correct"
and understandable? It s'posed to read:
"A president should behave properly with interns, and his vice
president, too. Stay away from the wind and the rain and the
landslides." (footnote: a reference to El Nino?)
Lyle Lofgren
Certified Minister in the Universal Life Church
(I've got the card here in my wallet somewhere, signed by Kirby J.
Hensley, D.D.)
Heath Curdts
McCracken made it up--I heard him sing it back in the 70's.
Yonder goes my bagel, how do I know?
I can tell all by its pretty round hole,
And it's made of dough, boys, and it's made of dough.
Kerry wrote:
>Yonder comes that rabbit,
>A-skippin' through the sand,
>Get (Kill) that rabbit; he don't mind;
>Fry him in my pan, pan; fry him in my pan.
I spent some time with Tommy, and never heard him sing anything that sounded
like "kill". I always thought it was "If that rabbit...", but maybe it was
"Get". Rev. Paul, whattya think?
Heath
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"There's more to think of than y'all's thought of, ain't it?"
--Paul Sutphin
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Dmarts
Certified Minister in the Universal Life Church
(I've got the card here in my wallet somewhere, signed by Kirby J.
Hensley, D.D.)<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
heck, *I'm* a certified minister in the Universal Life Church too! i suddenly
got the notion that a large number of old time fiddlers are ministers in this
same fine organization. Kerry, you certified??
Rev. D. Robert Murray
Kerry Blech
Yo, bro'
With Kirby's John Hancock.
signed
Rev. K.E.C.W. Blech, CMOULC, LMNOP, LSMFT, BFA, MA
ps
at least half the old-time community in Seattle is, by my
reckoning -- Mark Graham, Cliff Perry, Mike Bristow, definitely.
They've officiated weddings I've attended (Cliff was our
minister -- man, he even looks like g*d).
My cousin Randy is a Lutheran minister in rural Wisconsin,
for what that's worth, and I ofter got detention for
cutting up in my Jesuit-officiated religion classes in
high school -- where one of the priests played old-time banjo
(there's some old-time content, finally).
Gail Gillespie
: On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:06:44 -0500, Carl Baron
: <cba...@mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
: >
: >Isaiah 32:1-2 Behold, a king shall reign in righteous and a prince
: >shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as a hiding place from the
: >wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place,
: >as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
: >
: Hey, that sounds like King James. Don't you know that they've made
: all those re-translations to make the bible more modern and "correct"
: and understandable? It s'posed to read:
: "A president should behave properly with interns, and his vice
: president, too. Stay away from the wind and the rain and the
: landslides." (footnote: a reference to El Nino?)
: Lyle Lofgren
: Certified Minister in the Universal Life Church
: (I've got the card here in my wallet somewhere, signed by Kirby J.
: Hensley, D.D.)
Me too! There were mail-away forms in the back of Ramparts during the 60s.
Lost my card but still have the certificate, suitable-for-framing.
Old-time content: Rockin' in a Weary Land is also a cool tune of its own,
from Luther Davis, I think. I love the way "rock in a weary land"
got changed to the more swinging "rockin' in a weary land." Another
amusing King James/folk transformation appears in Marjorie Rawlings' THE
YEARLING. (Rawlings enriched her novels with tidbits from the speech of
the country people around her in north central Florida.) The boy Jody
names his dog "Moreover," because he finds a verse in the Bible, while
thumbing through it at random, that begins, "Moreover, the dog..."
-GG
Oldtime1
ambidextous and will hump even items of public art and the legs of Jarheads who
make jokes about Johnson County, but prefers females of the canine species
because less sniffing is necessary. (He never sniffs the leg of a Jarhead more
than once, and gags after he does it.) This needs oldtime content, so I will
tell you that Jake is the unfortunate pup that had the joke told on him in that
oldtime classic, Ryestraw, and he has healed rather well. Joe Wilson
Nancy Mamlin
Kerry Blech wrote in message <365596...@wolfenet.com>...
>Dmarts wrote:
>>
>> >>>>>>Lyle Lofgren
>> Certified Minister in the Universal Life Church
>> (I've got the card here in my wallet somewhere, signed by Kirby J.
>> Hensley, D.D.)<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>
suddenly
>> got the notion that a large number of old time fiddlers are ministers in
this
>> same fine organization. Kerry, you certified??
>> Rev. D. Robert Murray
>
>Yo, bro'
>
>With Kirby's John Hancock.
>
>signed
>Rev. K.E.C.W. Blech, CMOULC, LMNOP, LSMFT, BFA, MA
>
>ps
>at least half the old-time community in Seattle is, by my
>reckoning -- Mark Graham, Cliff Perry, Mike Bristow, definitely.
>They've officiated weddings I've attended (Cliff was our
>minister -- man, he even looks like g*d).
>
Some on this end of the country (and I didn't know that you were one of 'em
Gail) include Joe Fallon, Mac Benford, and Paul Brown. Paul is who married
Ron and I. In fact, we set the date according to when he didn't have a gig
with the Benton.
Old time content: Between the preacher, the best man, best woman, and band,
there were five banjo players up there.... scary, huh?
Nancy
******
Nancy Mamlin
"Whenever you got more than one person in a room together,
there's the potential for conflict." --Brian Yerman
******
The Martins
: Dmarts wrote:
: > heck, *I'm* a certified minister in the Universal Life Church too! i suddenly
: > got the notion that a large number of old time fiddlers are ministers in this
: > same fine organization. Kerry, you certified??
: > Rev. D. Robert Murray
: Yo, bro'
Hey! Me too! Me too! Domine, Domine, Domine! Now bless you all and you
know where to send the cash.
Reverend Billy Joe Martin, S.O.S. (Spawn of Satan)
John Garst
<cba...@mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
...
> The Shadow of a Great Rock In a Weary Land
> "From first to last The Mother Church seemed type and shadow of the
> warfare between the flesh and Spirit, even that shadow whose substance
> is the divine Spirit, imperatively propelling the greatest moral,
> physical, civil, and religious reform ever known on earth. In the words
> of the prophet: 'The shadow of a great rock in a weary land"' (Pul. p.
> 20:19).
"Pul. p. 20:19"???
John Garst ga...@sunchem.chem.uga.edu
Carl Baron
writr] writings are those used in the Concordance
to Miscellaneous Writings and Works Other than Science and Health.
Mis. Miscellaneous Writings
Mis. Doc. Miscellaneous Documents
Ret. Retrospection and introspection
Un. Unity of Good
"Pul. Pulpit and Press"
http://www.mbeinstitute.org/MBE-LF.htm
Carl
Paul Brown
Heath Curdts wrote:
> I spent some time with Tommy, and never heard him sing anything that sounded
> like "kill". I always thought it was "If that rabbit...", but maybe it was
> "Get". Rev. Paul, whattya think?
Well, I always heard
"Yonder comes that rabbit,
A-skippin' through the sand
I say rabbit if you don't mind,
Fry you in my pan, fry you in my pan"
But that's just my humble memory, and it's Sunday anyway. Back to sermonizing
for me, boys. Pass that dram, will you please?
Rev. Paul Brown
Universal Life Church of Westfield, NC
where we believe in doing right and you know what's right.
Larry & Jo Anne Johnson
MERLE HAGGARD, ETC. YOU WANT TO HEAR THE SOUND WE HAVE! A HIT IN EUROPE BUT
ALMOST NO AIRPLAY IN USA....WHY? E-MAIL US FOR FOR INFO:
LJOH...@PEOP.TDS.NET
BanjerBob wrote in message <19981119171242...@ng-cr1.aol.com>...
>
>>>>"It isn't good because its traditional, its traditional because its
good."
><<<<<
>
>Dave>>>>
>Quote??? What quote???
>Really, i lifted from an interview with Jody Stecher in an OTH interview.
It
>may be time for a new one, but this one it too good to drop.
>Bob
>
>
Brittles
>IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR GOOD TRADITIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC LIKE GEORGE JONES,
>MERLE HAGGARD, ETC. YOU WANT TO HEAR THE SOUND WE HAVE!...<
because:
>BanjerBob wrote in message <19981119171242...@ng-cr1.aol.com>...
>>"It isn't good because its traditional, its traditional because its
good."<<
Sorry, guys-
I think the "traditional country music" that BanjerBob is interested in, was
about 30 to 40 years earlier. More like the original Jimmy Rogers, and the
early Carter family, from the '20s and '30s.
It is THIS kind of "old-time country music", that this newsgroup
-"music.country.old-time" - was established to discuss.
Bob's quote is taken from Jody Stecher. He and his partner, Kate Brislin, are
superb musicians, who do a wonderful job, of showing modern audiences just how
great that real old-time country music was/is.
George and Merle (good as they are) are modern "rock and roll" by comparison.
Garth isn't even from the same planet. ;-)
Best-
Ed Britt
Brit...@aol.com