It’s now time to move underground and enter the burrow and find out more about the ‘Rabbit’
“Jack Rabbit” When “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” was released in June 1973 (from the forthcoming Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album), it included two previously unreleased tracks from an earlier session on the B-side. Both were written by the then-established team of John/Taupin. The first, “Jack Rabbit”, was undoubtedly inspired by country boy Bernie’s upbringing. Born on a farm near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, but for his serendipitous partnership with Elton, he might have ended up managing a chicken farm. Running to a mere 1 minute 49 seconds, “Jack Rabbit” was produced by Gus Dudgeon – like the rest of the Don’t Shoot Me… sessions – but did not make it onto the album although it was included on the 1995 Mercury and 1996 Rocket reissues.
“Mad as Rabbits” is a song by Panic at the Disco from the 2008 album ‘Pretty Odd’. The song chronicles a person who has given up his position of complete freedom to live as the ideal working man that provides for his entire family. The problem is that this person has lost all joy in his life, and has become “as mad as [a] rabbit.” The title also could be making an allusion to Alice In Wonderland since they are as ‘mad as rabbits’, like the rabbit in the original book.
“Pink Rabbits” is a track from the album ‘Trouble Will Find Me’ by The National. It is a love song about a relationship that has fallen apart, and then they come back. A lot of songs are like that. I’m a romantic, and I love singing about that stuff. I’ve been happily married for a long time, but all that romance and fear and anxiety and confusion continues to happen in any kind of relationship, whether it’s a new one or one you’ve been in for 10 years. I just love making songs out of it.
“Rabbit” is a song by Amy LaVere on her 2014 album ‘Runaway’s Diary’. The album which is loosely conceptual, centering on Amy LaVere going AWOL at the age of 15, after her parents’ divorce. The album was partly inspired by American blues musician Seasick Steve, who toured with the singer in 2008. “I ran away from home briefly when I was a teenager,” she explained to Uncut magazine. “The song ‘Rabbit’ is me imagining I’d stayed on the lam and hoping I would have ran into a character like Steve, because he’s such a nurturing person. That got me thinking that I wanted to explore that part of my life, and it all started to piece together.”
“Rabbit” is a song by Chas & Dave from the album Don’t Give a Monkey’s, which was released as a single in November 1980 and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 66. The song stayed in the charts for 8 weeks and peaked at number 8 in January 1981. The song was used in a series of adverts for Courage Bitter. The title comes from the Cockney rhyming slang “rabbit and pork” meaning “talk”. The song is about a relationship between a man and a woman, in which the man expresses his love for his girlfriend, but complains that she will not stop talking or, “rabbiting”.
