“Easter Bunny, hop hop hop!”

[marcicat]

Apparently there is a real song that contains the lyrics “Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail; hippity-hoppity Easter’s on its way.” (‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail,’ sung by Gene Autry) And! The song was written by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins, who wrote Frosty the Snowman a year later, which may explain why those songs sound similar enough that my memory often combines them.

(I have a memory of playing with a snowman Christmas ornament and singing ‘Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail; thumpity-thump thump thumpity-thump, over the hills of snow.’ I have no idea if it’s just my memory swapping out one song for another, or if that combination of lyrics actually made sense to me at the time.)

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Comments

[bluemeridian]

I think the lyrics might be "over the hills we go"? At least that's what I remember. Pretty sure we sang it in elementary school at some point.

[marcicat]

This made me super curious, so I checked around for lyrics online -- that whole section seems to be missing from a lot of official versions, and the ones that do include it seem to have a variety of wordings. (Once you've included the lyrics "thumpity-thump thump thumpity-thump" in a song, I really feel like all bets are off.)