Rabbit.


Midnight.
“Did you put the cat out”?
“Did you lock the door”?
“Did you turn the lights off”?
“Don’t you love me anymore”?
~
One a.m.
“Am I’m putting weight on”?
“Do I need a brand new hair do”?
“I haven’t got a thing to wear”
“But you don’t care, do you”?
~
Two a.m.
“You haven’t done that dripping tap”
“Or fixed the microwave”
“Your lazy and bone idle”
“And you treat me like a slave”
~
3 months later
Not a gap between the silences
Release from gibbering hell
Peace, quiet and solitude
In his happy prison cell
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Rabbit & Pork is cockney rhyming slang for talk, but we dropped the ‘pork’ long ago. Rabbit or Bunny now means non stop chatter or nagging and mostly refers to females, sorry girls.

Nearly all Brit pop stars adopted a transatlantic accent for their lyrics. Two London guys ditched all that and sang their songs in their native cockney accent. Which is a touch different than Dick van Dykes attempt in ‘Mary Popings’. We still laugh at that and Dick does too.

Try this for the real thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOSseI1hao8

Cari.