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Old Granny Hare

from Sol. La. Fa. by Tim Risher

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An old folk song; this recording taken from the Smithsonian collection by Robert Gordon from W.E. Bird
Cullowhee, NC October 28, 1925.

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Old Molly Hare what you doin’ there?
Sittin’ by the fireplace smokin’ my cigar.

Jump back, jump back, daddy shot a bear
Shot him in the eye and he never touched a hair.

Old Molly Hard what you doin’ there?
Runnin’ through the cotton patch as fast as I can tear.

Old Molly Hare what you doin’ there?
Sittin’ in the butter dish pickin’ out a hair.

I’d rather be here than to be over there
A whole mess of cockleberries tangled in my hair.

Old Granny Hare what you doin’ there?
Runin’ through the cotton patch as hard as I can tear.

Wheat bread cornbread or any such a thing
The old sow died with the measles in the spring.

Old Granny Hare what you doin’ there?
Sittin’ in the corner smokin’ a cigar.

The old sow’s leg or the old sow’s tail
Make as good a hammer as ever drove a nail.

credits

from Sol. La. Fa., released November 12, 2014
Sung by W. E. Bird in Cullowhee, N. C., October 28, 1925

Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 
(American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress)

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