I went in for rabbits and I kept them in a hutch.
I only bought two rabbits, it didn’t seem like much.
Next morning when I looked at them how they had multiplied.
A thousand rabbits jumped right out and all the neighbors cried:
Shut the door, they’re coming through the window,
Shut the window, they’re coming through the door,
Shut the door, they’re coming through the window,
Oh the room is full and won’t hold anymore.
Little bunny hop hop hop
How your ears do flop flop flop
My goodness me all night and day
You flop your little life away
Life away
You flop your little ever lovin’ cotton pickn’ life away.
Look out, look out, look out for Jimmy Valentine,
He’s a pal o’ mine, a sentimental crook.
With his sandpaper fingers he can steal the combination of your pocketbook.
Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dreams.
I am a traveller of both time and space, to be where I have been.
Sit with elders of a gentle race this world has seldom seen,
Talk of days for which they sit and wait, all will be revealed.
Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we’ll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain’t heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues.
Good night, America, how are you?
Don’t you know me I’m your native son,
I’m the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.