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The old gray mare, she kicked on the whiffletree, Kicked on the whiffletree, kicked on the whiffletree, The old gray mare, she kicked on the whiffletree, Many long years ago. Many long years ago, many long years ago, The old gray mare, she kicked on the whiffletree, Many long years ago. (Note that "mule" is sometimes substituted for "mare".)
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all. So they harnessed and bridled the old grey mare. All along, down along, out along lea. And off they drove to Widecombe fair, With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
McNulty composed "The Old Grey Mare" during the campaign of Ferdinand Latrobe [5] with its pun on words as a political epithet of the aging Baltimore Mayor Latrobe, who also drove about in a carriage, which was drawn by a decrepit old mare that he had kept for years. The song so endeared the Baltimore voting public to Latrobe that he was re ...
The title is a double play on words. One is the typical pun between "hare" and "hair", with the bunny (who was already grey-haired) rendered "old and grey" for this cartoon. The title also refers to the old song, "The Old Gray Mare". Some of the lobby cards for this cartoon gave the alternate spelling, The Old Gray Hare.
Dating back to at least the mid-20th century, the song is sung to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare". [1] The song, especially popular in school lunchrooms and at summer camps, presents macabre horrors through cheerful comedy while allowing children to explore taboo images and words especially as they relate to standards of cleanliness and dining.
"My Old Kentucky Home" – Colonel Houndstoothe (Bassett hound in rocking chair) "Polly Wolly Doodle" – The Swamp Boys (gator trio, frogs, and harmonica-playing raccoon) "Lord I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again" – Mother Possum with babies "Down in the Valley" – a Coyote "Down by the Riverside" – Hens, Foxes, Swamp Boy Frogs
"The Old Grey Mare Came Tearin' Out of the Wilderness" – 3:09 "I Know My Name Is There" – 3:56 "Starving to Death on the Government Claim" – 4:47
"The Old Gray Mare" (from The Wee Sing Train) "One, Two, Whale That's Blue" (from Wee Sing Under the Sea) "Grasshoppers Three" (from Wee Sing in the Big Rock Candy Mountains) "Little Peter Rabbit" (from Wee Sing Together) "Frog Round" (from Wee Sing in Sillyville) "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (from King Cole's Party)