Little Rabbit

COUNTRY: Hungary
LANGUAGE: Hungarian

“Little Rabbit” (in Hungarian, ‘Hová mégy te kisnyulacska’”) is a Hungarian children’s song about a little bunny who goes into the forest, collects sticks and builds a garden so he can grow flowers for his mom. Probably not a true story.

In the early 1900s Hungarian composer and visionary musicologist Zoltán Kodály scoured the countryside collecting Hungarian folk songs, bringing favorites like “Little Rabbit” into his repertoire. Kodály believed that folk songs, the songs of the people, were the best songs to use to teach young children the basics of music. Today the Kodaly method of teaching music to young children, which is available worldwide, still starts with the songs folks sing and builds from there.

Lyrics of All Around This World version:

Where are you going, little rabbit?
Ingom-bingom talibe , tutalibe malibe
Into the forest.
Why do you go there, little rabbit?
Ingom-bingom talibe , tutalibe malibe
To find some sticks.
Why do you need them, little rabbit?
Ingom-bingom talibe , tutalibe malibe
to build a garden.
Why do you need that little garden?
Ingom-bingom talibe , tutalibe malibe
For my mom.

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