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"Rabbit Where's Your Mammy?" is an American reel in cut time and A Major. The parts are played AABB.
The tune family is a common one in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where it probably originated, but the tune has since been widely disseminated. It is often played with (and confused with) "Little Rabbit". California mandolin and fiddler player Kenny Hall recalled that Crockett’s Kentucky Mountaineers removed to Hollywood from Kentucky in the 1920’s to further their careers. Hall, who has lived in Fresno since the 1950’s, met the elderly Crocket who was then in retirement and was told that the Crockett family had played “Little Rabbit Where’s Your Mammy” for a Bugs Bunny cartoon sometime in the 1930’s. |