A final visit to the burrow for another collection of songs featuring Rabbits.
“The Rabbit Song” by Johyn Lydon the former Sex Pistol, appears as the only new song on the 2005 compilation album ‘Best of British £1 Notes’. “Rabbit Song”, was used as intro music for a 2009 Public Image Limited tour. John Lydon became an interestingly experimental artist following the demise of The Sex Pistols, and this song, a new track from his Greatest Hits package is a bizarre song that hits like a true earworm.
“Run, Rabbit, Run” is a song written by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler. The music was by Noel Gay and the song was originally sung by Flanagan and Allen accompanied by the Harry Bidgood orchestra. It was a popular song during World War II, especially after Flanagan and Allen changed the lyrics to poke fun at the Germans (e.g. Run, Adolf, run, Adolf, run, run, Run…) The lyrics were used as a defiant dig at the allegedly ineffectual Luftwaffe. In November 1939, soon after the outbreak of the Second World War and also soon after the song was premiered, Germany launched its first air raid on Britain, on flying boats that were sheltering in Sullom Voe, Shetland. Two rabbits were supposedly killed by a bomb drop, although it is suggested that they were in fact procured from a butchers’ shop and used for publicity purposes.
“Run Little Rabbit” is a song by Cab Calloway which was released as single with Bye Bye Blues in March 1941. Calloway was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, conductor and dancer. He was associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he was a regular performer and became a popular vocalist of the swing era.
“Rabbit Fighter” is a song by T. Rex. released as a track from their album ‘The Slider’ from 1972. The song about the lengths people will go to for the women they love(d). ‘rabbit fighting all over you’ , essentially fighting to go down the same rabbit hole they are doomed to go down their whole life. He sees the pattern but knows that love is in his heart, so he will rabbit fight all over you.
“Clea Caught a Rabbit” is an instrumental by Ann Briggs taken from her album ‘The Time Has Come’ first released in 1971. Album sales were pooor and so it was withdrawn by CBS it was then re-issued in 1996. Briggs is an English folk musician. Although she travelled widely in the 1960s and early 1970s, appearing at folk club and venues in England and Ireland, she never aspired to commercial success or to achieve widespread public acknowledgment of her music. However, she was an influential figure in the British Folk revival.
