{"id":10962,"date":"2022-06-23T04:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:43:08","slug":"peter-cottontail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/peter-cottontail\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Cottontail"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHEET MUSIC<\/a><\/p>\n

Here Comes Peter Cottontail\r\nThis version based on the rendition sung by Danny Kaye for the 1971 Rankin\/Bass film.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 1]\r\nC<\/span>                C7<\/span>         F<\/span>\r\nHere comes Peter Cottontail hoppin' down the bunny trail\r\nG<\/span>               G7<\/span>              C<\/span>\r\nHippity hoppity Easter's on its way\r\nC<\/span>              C7<\/span>           F<\/span>\r\nBringing every girl and boy baskets full of Easter joy\r\nG<\/span>                   G7<\/span>                C<\/span>\r\nThings to make your Easter bright and gay\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n         F<\/span>\r\nHe's got jellybeans for Tommy\r\n        C<\/span>\r\nColored eggs for sister Sue\r\n           F<\/span>               Dm<\/span>\r\nThere's an orchid for your Mommy\r\n\r\n       Dm7<\/span>    D7<\/span>     G7<\/span>\r\nAnd an Easter bonnet too\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 2]\r\nC<\/span>                C7<\/span>         F<\/span>\r\nHere comes Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail\r\nG<\/span>               G7<\/span>           C<\/span>\r\nHippity hoppity happy Easter day\r\n \r\n \r\n[Instrumental]\r\nF<\/span>       C<\/span>       F<\/span>   Dm<\/span>   Dm7<\/span> D7<\/span> G7<\/span>\r\nC<\/span>   C7<\/span>   F<\/span>      G<\/span>   G7<\/span>   C<\/span>\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 3]\r\nC<\/span>                C7<\/span>         F<\/span>\r\nHere comes Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail\r\nG             G7                  C\r\nLook and him, stop. Listen to him say.\r\nC             C7                 F\r\nTry to do the things you should, maybe if you\u2019re extra good\r\nG                  G7               C\r\nHe\u2019ll roll lots of Easter eggs your way\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n            F\r\nYou'll wake up on Easter morning\r\n           C                C7\r\nAnd you'll know that he was there\r\n         F                    Dm\r\nWhen you find those chocolate bunnies\r\n          Dm7    D7    G7\r\nThat he's hiding everywhere\r\n \r\n \r\n[Outro]\r\n    C                C7         F\r\nOh, Here comes Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail\r\nG               G7           C\r\nHippity hoppity Happy Easter Day!\r\n
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SHEET MUSIC Here Comes Peter Cottontail This version based on the rendition sung by Danny Kaye for the 1971 Rankin\/Bass film. [Chorus 1] C C7 F Here comes Peter Cottontail hoppin’ down the bunny trail G G7 C Hippity hoppity Easter’s on its way C C7 F Bringing every girl … CLICK TO VIEW SONGPeter Cottontail<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,117,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-live-piano","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29450,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions\/29450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}