"Big-Eyed Rabbit" is an old-time breakdown known in Alabama, Mississippi and western North Carolina in A Major. It was played in AEae fiddle tuning by Tommy Jarrell and Kirk Sutphin or standard tuning. The parts are played ABB (irregular 'A' part) or AABB (Silberberg).
The A part is crooked by containing 10 measures.
It was recorded by Quitman, Mississippi, fiddler Charles Long in 1939 in the field for the Library of Congress.
It was printed in Silberberg's Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern (2002) and Spadaro's 10 Cents a Dance (1980).
It was recorded by Kirk Sutphin on Old Roots and New Branches (1994) and Tommy Jarrell on Joke on the Puppy (1976).