Rabbit Pie

 

Rabbit Pie

Lyrics by Michael Vance

Written August 1971

From “Johnathan Stallion” musical

 

“They spend their lives at puppet shows

and wonder where the yellow goes—

salute the mighty pantyhose—

and question why I question why

and cannot cry for laughing.”

 

Boy was afraid his foster mother would remarry

and send him away from his bed.

Shot her in the head

and put her body in an oil drum

behind the family shed.

True love is not dead.

 

Rabbit pie, rabbit pie, cut a piece for your pleasure

fill yourself, leave no measure

of sweet rabbit pie

served in an oil drum

I have no taste for it

Rabbit pie, rabbit pie, spiced with rum

 

Jeffrey Rabbit ran his mother’s Tastee Bakery

Something for every sweet tooth

Increased his present stock

by putting her body in a pie pan

baked her in the back lot.

Good things for hungry tots.

 

Rabbit pie, rabbit pie, cut a piece for your pleasure

fill yourself, leave no measure

of sweet rabbit pie

served in an oil drum

I have no taste for it

Rabbit pie, rabbit pie, spiced with rum

 

“They spend their lives at puppet shows

and wonder where the yellow goes—

salute the mighty pantyhose—

and question why I question why

and cannot cry for laughing

for laughing, cannot, cannot

cry for laughing, Lord, laughing, cannot cry

for laughing?

 

 

Done