Song of the South your music weaves a magic spell...
Song of the South, I see the scenes I know so well...
Cottonwoods in blossom, over my cabin door.
Pale moon light on a field of white, you bring them back once more...
I seem to hear those gentle voices calling low, out of the long, long ago.
This heart of mine is in the heart of Dixie. That's where I belong,
singing a song, a Song of the South.
Yes sir... there's other ways of learning about the behind feet of a mule
than getting kicked by them. Sure as I'm named Remus.
And just because these here tales is about critters like Brer Rabbit, and Brer Fox,
that don't mean they ain't the same like can happen to folks...
So them what can't learn from a tale about critters
just ain't got their ears tuned for listening.
Like as not they're too busy going along all mixed up with their own troubles.
Like the time that Miss Sally and Mister John was coming down to the plantation.
Mama?
Yes, Johnny?
Why are we going to Grandma's?
Well... I told you dear, for a visit.
Why don't she come to see us, like she did last spring?
Because it... I thought you'd enjoy seeing the plantation.
Is Grandma mad at us?
But of course not, Johnny. What ever gave you that idea?
Well, Georgie says everybody's mad... what Daddy writes in the newspaper.
Don't Grandma read the newspaper? Don't she?
She does. And she likes what's in it.
John, please.
Are you mad at each other too?
Why no, dear. Of course not.
Gracious goodness, Johnny... We's almost there! Listen!
You ain't never hear'd no frogs like them in Atlanta.
You know what they're saying?
Knee-deep! Knee-deep!
- Honest? - Honest.
Knee-deep! Knee-deep!
You know, when I was your age, I used to catch lots of 'em.
I remember one time I hid a whole box of them over in your grandma's milk house
And they got loose.
Yes, and I remember what you got for doing it too.
Well, it was old Uncle Remus' fault, you know.
He told me that story about Brer Frog.
The tale about him having a tail and losing it?
That's it. Only... "How can there be a tale..."
"When there ain't no tail."
Aunt Tempy?
What is it, child?
Is Uncle Remus real?
Real? 'Course he's real. You just wait until you hears him
tell a tale about Brer Rabbit. Then you'll know he's real.
Welcome home, my daughter.
And you too, sir. Oh, it's good to have a man in the house again.
Turn around here, young man and let me have a look at you.
You favor your grandfather more every time I see you.
Toby! Yes, Miss Doshy?
This is my grandson Johnny. and he's the apple of my eye.
Now, you take good care of him and show him our plantation.
And if he gets into trouble, you see that he gets out of it.
Yes ma'am.
I hope you're a noisy boy. I love noisy children.
It makes it so much easier to tell where they are and what they're up to.
Aunt Tempy, is that Uncle Remus?
Uncle Remus? Lordy no, honey. That's just Ned.
Come on, I'll show you the big grandpa clock.
I've been hearing about the clatter you've raised in Atlanta.
Thumping for cotton mills, railways, and heaven knows what.
Miss Doshy? Where do you want me to put this here trunk?
Put it in the... Oh well, never mind. Perhaps I'd better show him myself.
Come along. Now be careful you don't bump into things.
Sally...
Well? What are you going to tell her?
Have you changed your mind, or are you still going to stay?
Oh, I have to stay John. It wouldn't be fair to mama.
She has enough responsibility... I'm not going to saddle her with ours.
But it's only for a short time. She's be only too glad to take care of Johnny.
When that big hand gets straight up, watch out!
What I tell you!?
Oh, Miss Doshy, Sally wants Johnny to stay here for awhile with you.
What will you do?
Oh, I'm going back. And I want Sally to go with me.
It's no use, John. I'm not going back.
Then I'll have to go without you. And I'd better hurry, or I'll miss my train.
Miss it! You won't regret it.
Daddy? You're going back?
Yes, son.
Why?
I have to.
But... You... You've never left mama and me before.
No, I know. But I've got a job to do, and you've got one too.
Taking care of mother and grandmother. You'll do that now for me, won't you?
Goodbye, son.
- Goodbye Miss Doshy. - Goodbye John.
- Goodbye Sally. - Goodbye.
Daddy! Don't! Don't go! Please Daddy! Please! I won't stay here!
If you go, I'm going too!
That's what Uncle Remus said.
Listen now to what I say. That's how the critters got that way.
The leopard's pappy got the gout from eatin' too much speckle trout.
His mammy dreamed of polka dots,
that's how the leopard got his spots.
That's what Uncle Remus said. That's what Uncle Remus said.
Speckle trout and polka dots,
that's how the leopard got his spots.
More, more, tell us more.
The camel crossed the desert sands
with all them mighty caravans. His bed was full of sandy lumps.
That's how the camel got those humps.
That's what Uncle Remus said. That's what Uncle Remus said.
Sandy bed was full of lumps,
that's how the camel got those humps.
More, more, tell us more.
The pig he saw his monkey friend
swinging by his other end. He tried the same thing on a rail.
That's how the pig got a curly tail.
Yes sir, that's the way with Brer Rabbit... sure as I'm named Remus.
About the time he get it stuck in his mind that there ain't nobody can out-do him,
up somebody'd jump and do him scandalous!
"What you laughing about?" Says Brer Fox, says he.
And Brer Rabbit, he couldn't say nothing. "Well then," says Brer Fox, says he...
"I'll settle your hash right now!" And with that, he grab Brer Rabbit by the tail
and made for to dash him against the ground. But just then,
Brer Rabbit's tail snap off real short, and he tuck
through the cotton patch like the dogs was after him.
And from that day to this the only tail that Brer Rabbit's got to his name
was a little old ball of cotton.
And what happen to Brer Fox, Uncle Remus?
Won't do to put out too much cloth for to cut one pair of pants.
Uncle Remus, you tells the best tales in the whole United States of Georgia!
Lordy child, you should have heard me tell them when I could tell them.
I bound you'd have busted the buttons off your what-cha-ma-call-ums.
When Miss Sally was your age, she used to sit just as you is sitting right now
and laugh until she could laugh no more.
Uncle Remus! Uncle Remus! Lord have mercy, have you seen Johnny?
Poor Miss Sally... She's been looking high and low for that child!
You sure he ain't been down here listening to one of your tales?
Course he ain't! Wouldn't I have seen him?
How come you let that boy get out of your sight?
Didn't Miss Doshy tell you to take care of him?
Come on Chloe! Us got to find him before Miss Sally goes out of her mind.
Miss Tempy... You tell Miss Sally the boy's with me.
What do you mean, he's with you?
Never mind. You just tell her what I said.
Come on Toby, get yourself on.
Well, bless my soul!
Ah, there now, done gone and got something in your eye.
And I ain't surprised...
Things blowing around here the way they does.
Now...
Hmm...
Appears to me like you is figuring on going some place.
I am! And nobody's gonna stop me!
Well now. If that don't bang my time!
You know, I was just figurin' on doing somethin' like that myself.
How'd you like old Uncle Remus to go along with you?
Now, let's see now. Where are we figurin' on goin'?
How can we be going some place if we don't know where we is going?
I'm going to Atlanta.
Powerful long walk to Atlanta.
Is you brung some grub?
No.
Well, now... if we ain't got no grub, we sure can't get very far.
Suppose we stops by my place and picks up some cornbread?
And maybe some sweet potatoes?
To be sure, honey.
Gimme your hand. I need young eyes in the dark.
Sort of late in the day to be startin' on such a long trip, ain't it?
Well, you don't have to go... Just because you said you would.
Well, now, I ain't heard nobody say nothing about not going. Course I'll go.
And I'm not coming back!
You're laughing at me.
At you honey?
No sir.
I is laughing because them's exactly the words that old Brer Rabbit used
the time that he lit out from his briar patch!
"And I ain't never comin' back, neither!"
Yes sir, them was his very words.
Well, I reckon I better be getting my things together so that we can be leaving.
- What did you say about Brer Rabbit? - Which Brer Rabbit was that, honey?
Why, you said something about Brer Rabbit.
Who? Me?
I might have said something about him day before yesterday...
...but it done gone clean off my mind.
Why, you said there was a tale about Brer Rabbit not coming back to his briar patch.
Well, bless my soul, child. I sure did.
And if I don't tell you about him, you're gonna pester me until I does.
So what's the odds? It ain't no great tale, no-how.
Is that the same Brer Rabbit that got away from the fox?
Why, don't you know? they ain't but one Brer Rabbit.
Now you just set yourself down here and listen with both ears wide open...
because this here Brer Rabbit, he's the out-doin'est...
the most bodacious critter in the whole world.
Now this here tale didn't happen just yesterday...
Nor the day before. 'Twas a long time ago.
And in them days, everything was mighty satisfactual.
The critters, they was closer to the folks...
And the folks, they was closer to the critters...
And, if you'll excuse me for sayin' so, t'was better all around.
Yes sir, Honey... It happened on one of them Zip-a-dee-do-da days.
Now that's the kind of day
when you can't open your mouth
without a song jump right out of it...
Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-ay! My oh my, what a wonderful day!
Plenty of sunshine, headin' my way. Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-ay!
Mr. Bluebird's on my shoulder.
It's the truth. It's actual. Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-ay! Wonderful feeling! Wonderful day!
Yes sir!
Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-ay! My oh my, what a wonderful day!
Oh, plenty of sunshine headin' our way! Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-ay!
Mr. Bluebird's on my shoulder.
It's the truth. It's actual. Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-ay! Wonderful feeling, feeling this way!
Zum, zum, zum, zum, zum, zum, zum. Zum, zum, zum, zum, zum, zum zum.
Boom-boom, boom-boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, ba-boo!
Mr. Bluebird's on my shoulder. It is the truth, it's actual... huh?
Where is that bluebird?
Mmm, mmm... Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-ay! wonderful feeling, wonderful da-...
Doggone old briar patch! Doggone old place like this! Doggone... Keep on-...
Ahem... Howdy Brer Rabbit.
Wa-wa-wa-who-who-dat calling my name? Oh-ah-uh-uh-ah-hello Uncle Remus.
Appears to me that you is in a powerful bad mood to go to the party.
I ain 't going to no party.
'Cause I ain't going to be here. I'm gonna leave this old place.
You mean you's leaving your old briar patch?
That... I... is!
The place where you was born and raised?
That... I... is!
You mean, leaving for good?
That... I... Owwww! Now see there?
That old briar patch ain't brought me nothing but trouble.
Owww! And more trouble.
This is where the trouble is, and this the place I belongs away from.
But don't you know you can't run away from trouble?
Heh-heh. Where I'm going, there ain't gonna be no trouble.
They ain't no place that far.
Well, just the same, I done made up my mind, and I ain't never comin' back.
Well, so long Uncle Remus.
Sure hope you knows what you is doing.
Heh-heh! Don't worry about me; I can take care of myself.
He left his old troubles behind, all right, but...
...he was heading straight for a whole mess of brand new trouble.
Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-...
First news he knows, there he dangled, 'twixt the heavens and the earth...
First he scared he gonna fall. Then he scared he ain't gonna fall!
He yanked and he pulled and he heaved and he hauled. But weren't no use.
He knows somebody caught him all right...
...And he sort of expects he knows who that somebody is.
And sure enough, up on Chickapin Hill, where he live...
...who should hear the ruckus but old Brer Fox,
and when that old scamp see he done caught Brer Rabbit, he holler out,
"I got him! I gots that old Rabbit! I sure is got him! Heh-heh!"
"I got that old rabbit this time for sure! I got
him! I got him! I got him! Heh heh heh heh heh heh!"
And with that, he grab up his axe
and make ready, for to settle Brer Rabbit's hash, right now.
Now, Brer Rabbit, being little and without much strength
he's supposed to use his head instead of his foots
and that exactly what he's starting to do,
when he hear old Brer Bear come ambling down the road.
Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-de-ay,
Zip-da-da-da-da, wonderful day. Zip-a-dee-do-da...
Er... ah, howdy, Brer Bear. How do you do!
Dah-dah-dah-dah. Who... ah... where... uh...
- How you come on? - Wha.. ah.. ah... Oh! ah... ah...
What you doing up there?
Oh, keeping the crows out the cornfield. I is making a dollar a minute.
- Uh... a dollar a minute? - Indeed I is!
Would you like to make a dollar a minute, Brother Bear?
Da... yeah, but...
You know, you'd make a mighty fine scarecrow, brother Bear.
- Uh, thanks. - How'd you like to have this job?
Oh yeah... ah... no... M-ma... da-...
- I... I couldn't take your job - No-no-no-no that's all right, you-...
Bu-bu-bu-bu... I have made enough money! I got all I wants.
- You needs money... Here, you take my job. - Oh no, I couldn't do...
You is welcome. You is MORE than welcome!
- Thank you Brer Rabbit. - That's all right. So long Brother Bear.
- I'll never forget this. - Goodbye.
I just don't know how to thank you enough.
Goodbye, goodbye. Don't mention it.
But I sure really mighty-..
You're welcome, ye-yeah I know, oh ye-yeah. So long!
I just don't know how to thank you enough, but I sure really... mighty...
You're welcome. Yeah, yeah! I know, oh yeah, yeah!
So long brother! So LONG Brother Bear!
I... I... I... Oh no!
- Dollar a minute, zip-a-dee-ay - What you doin' up in the-...!?
-How in the world you get-... -Howdy Brer Fox!
- Get out of my trap. - Zip-a-dee... Hey! Uh-uh bu-but...
- Hey, I was makin' a dollar a minute. - You was not makin' a dollar a minute, y-
Y-you rabbit thief. You was making a fool out yourself.
I... was too making... a dollar a minute.
Hit him in the mouth Brother Fox! Clip him! Clip him in the head, Brother Bear!
Look at that rabbit. Look at him, standing over there. See there?
See there? He done made a fool out of you. You fool.
- He did? - Of course he did. He just-...
Well then... I'm just gonna knock...
-You keep out of this Brer Bear. He's mine! -...his head...
-He's mine, I caught him, he's mine! -...clean off!
I gotcha Brer Rabbit! Hee-hee! ...Hey
Let go; I got him first; he's mine! I caught him; he's mine!
Let go now. Let go now. He's mine! I got him!
I gotcha Brer Rabbit. Hee-hee!
I got him Brer Fox!
I got him!
So Brer Rabbit took his foot in his hand and put out for home... where he belong.
And just like I told him in the first place, you can't run away from trouble.
there ain't no place that far.
- His foot in his hand Uncle Remus? - Sure honey.
That's just a way of saying that he run as fast as he can.
- Straight back to his briar patch. - Where's Brer Rabbit's briar patch?
Where? Well now, let me see...
That I can't exactly say
'Cause I ain't been keepin' close track as I used to, but...
Do you think we could find it?
Find it? Course we could!
But what's the use of speculating on that...
...when we's going away?
Do you think we ought to go Uncle Remus?
Not go? After I done fixed all this grub?
But you said it was a mighty long walk.
But we's going together, ain't we?
What's done come over you, honey?
Well, Brer Rabbit...
Well, what's Brer Rabbit got to do with this?
Tch tch tch tch tch!
And just when I had a hankering for to go.
Well... if you really want to go, Uncle Remus.
Oh nevermind, honey. nevermind. I can give it up if you can.
Uncle Remus!
Uncle Remus, I can't find Johnny no place. And I is supposed to take care of him.
Well, what do you know about that?
I reckon he done for, Uncle Remus.
He might have got his self lost.
He might have fell in the mill pond.
And he might have got ate up.
Why, it's him! It sure is! It ain't nobody else!
How you like that, Uncle Remus? It's him!
Maybe it's just his ghost.
Is you? No sir! That's him! That's him alright!
- Uh-oh... - What's the matter Toby?
I was just thinking... He's sure gonna catch it when he get home!
Guess I better take my foot in my hand, Uncle Remus, and get goin'.
Hold on there. I reckon you better let old Uncle Remus go along with you.
- Tempy. - Yes ma'am.
Tempy, go and find Uncle Remus and see if Johnny is with him.
Never mind, Tempy!
Now, maybe I can get some sleep.
Think they're waiting for me?
They ain't passing the time of day.
Son! Where have you been?
Lordy, Miss Sally, didn't sister Tempy tell you he was with me?
Yes, she told me... but it's so long past Johnny's bedtime!
To be sure, Miss Sally, I was telling him a tale about Brer Rabbit, and I...
....plum forgot the time.
Well, I don't mind your telling him stories, Uncle Remus.
But you know perfectly well, it's too late for him to be up.
Yes ma'am. It won't happen again, Miss Sally.
I'm sure it won't. Well, son, let's run along upstairs and get ready for bed.
Miss Doshy, Johnny forgot the bundle.
Didn't I tell you to run along home before your ma takes a stick after you?
You and your stories!
Miss Doshy... What us gonna do about that child?
I wish I knew. A grandmother doesn't count for much these days.
Yes ma'am. It's a pity, too. What that child needs is his pa.
And that's what his mother needs...
But I'm afraid it's going to take a little while for her to find that out.
Might cut the time down a piece, Miss Doshy, if you just drops a word.
If I want your advice I'll ask for it.
I'm a stubborn old woman, Uncle Remus.
Yes ma'am, Miss Doshy; I knows that.
- Well, goodnight. - Goodnight.
You ain't mad with me, is you, Miss Doshy?
You meddling old rascal! Of course I'm not mad with you.
Looka here! I brung you something!
Oo, he's beautiful!
Morning, Brer Frog! How do you do?
Say "knee-deep", Brer Frog, "Knee-deep, knee-deep."
He got to be in the water before he say that.
Where'd you get him? The mill pond?
Yea! How come you know that?
My daddy; he told me. He's caught lots of them!
Let's go down after breakfast and get some more.
Yeah, maybe Uncle Remus will let us use his frog box.
Come on, Brer Frog! Say it.
Johnny! Are you awake? Good morning, dear.
- Mornin'! - Did you have a nice sleep?
Yes ma'am.
Come on! Take him!
Here we are now. Let's hurry out and get dressed.
Do I have to wear that suit?
Yes, dear. Daddy's mother is coming to see us today.
And the collar, too?
Yes, dear, of course. She made it for you herself.
She'll want to see how nice it looks on you.
But Toby and I were going frog hunting...
Well that's all right, darling. You can go another day.
Now get dressed and come on down to breakfast.
Just looking at the mill pond won't hurt your clothes none.
It's no fun just to look.
Sure it is! Besides, us got to take Brer Frog back, ain't we?
We leave him around here, he liable to get stomped on... or runned over... or lost.
You look mighty sad...
...like your miss your family.
Suppose you never see your ma or pa again.
Well... ...guess just taking him back ain't frog hunting...
Course it ain't! Come on!
If you take this here horse, we kin get there a heap quicker.
-Here! -How far is it?
Just a little piece. Over there, around the bend.
Come on! I'll beat you!
Whoa! Stay away from there!
- You can't cut across there! - Why not?
That's why!
- Sure lucky I was with you! - What's that for?
Test whether the wind blowing good or bad.
And if it's blowing towards the bull, that ain't good
because then he smell you coming and catch you on his horns sure!
The best way is don't cut across there at all.
Giddy-up! Giddy-up!
We ought to drown him!
-Sure, he's the runt. -Yeah!
This here's my puppy! You leave him alone.
Aw, go on, Ginny. Ha ha ha ha!
Them the Faber boys. My ma don't allow me to play with them.
Your ma don't neither... If she catch you.
You let go of him before I knock your head clean off.
Where'd you get them funny looking clothes?
Yeah.
Look at that lace collar. Look, Joe.
What's your name little girl?
Look at the little girlie wearing a lace collar!
Wearing a lace collar! Wearing a lace collar!
Can I hold him?
You can have him.
For keeps?
If you'll be nice to him.
They was gonna drown him.
His name's Teenchy.
Teenchy? Gee, he's beautiful!
You can have it if you want it.
Guess Teenchy wants a boat ride.
What's your name?
- Johnny, what's yours? - Ginny.
That's a pretty name.
Mr Bluebird's on my shoulder.
It is the truth. It's actual. Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-doo-da, zip-a-dee-ay! Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!
You take that puppy right back where he come from, just like your maw told you.
And don't you waste no time doing it, neither.
You're my puppy and that's all there is to it.
If I take you back, that Jack Favers'll drown you.
Old Brer Possum, got a trick how come he get so fat.
When trouble come along, he play like dead.
Now who wants to live like that.
Well I do, I surely do. I can't see nothing wrong.
While other folks is worrying I'm sleeping all day long.
Well I do, I surely do, It's funny but it's true.
That's what I abso-positive-i-lutely, wants to do.
Well, bless my soul.
How you come by that?
Ain't that one of them Favers' dogs?
You been playin' with them boys?
No, Uncle Remus.
Then I ask you, where he come from?
You better turn around and tote that dog right back!
But he's mine! Ginny gave him to me!
What your ma gonna say when you come home with that dog?
She ain't gonna allow you to have no mangey, no account puppy like that!
Not in the house, maybe. But it might be all right if...
-...you kept him! -Now hold on there! Now hold on!
You don't expect old Uncle Remus to keep that dog!
- Where I gonna get stuff to feed him? - But I...
And furthermore, he'd be hollering And squalling all night.
And you got to be letting him out and letting him in...
I sure ain't got the time to be fooling with no dog.
Course, don't expect a little dog like that'd eat very much.
And it ain't like you can't get used to all that hollering and squalling.
But it's this here letting in and... letting out.
Course I got a little corner what ain't being used...
Lordy! Ain't he a ugly little critter?
He's not ugly!
He might grow up to be alright. And then again he mightn't.
Come here you little Rascal.
Look at that!
Dog-gone if he don't act like he think I'm gonna take him.
Got a nice little tail, too!
Trouble, trouble, trouble fly away,
wake up early in the morning, when the ding dong ring, look up.
Going down to the kitchen room
It's the same old thing want to get a bite of something
for that hungry look. Look up!
Stick your finger in the dumpling
get your trouble with the cook.
Let the rain pour down. Let the cold wind blow.
Gonna stay right here, in the home I know.
Trouble, trouble, trouble fly away.
Having trouble with the weevil, never did like that, look up.
Got the cotton full of evil, like a hypocrite's hat.
When the weevil get the cotton
everybody feel low, look out, there'll be nothing on the table.
When the dinner horn blow, let the rain pour down...
Now you Favers boys go on home! Ain't I done told you? Go on away!
Ain't no if's and and's about it. Stop pestering me about this here dog.
I ain't gonna give him to you unless Johnny tells me. He's your dog, ain't he?
- Course he is! Ginny gave him to me! - It weren't "hern" to give!
It was too hers!
- That dog's "ourn." -And we're gonna take him!
You're not going to take him! He's mine!
If I hears one more word about this here puppy, I'll...
I'm going straight to Miss Sally. I'll do it, sure as I'm named Remus!
- We'll get him yet! You'll see! - Yeah!
Johnny!
Don't you pay no attention to them.
If they makes trouble, you just tell my ma.
Because ma says if I give him to you, he's yours.
Remember, you just tell my ma, she'll whale the daylights out of them!
Well, honey, you show got your se'f in a peck of trouble.
You is worse than Brer Rabbit, when it come to sticking your foot in it.
Sticking my foot in it, Uncle Remus?
To be sure...
just like Brer Rabbit when he took and stuck his foot into something
he don't know nothing about
and ain't had no business mixing up with in the first place.
Ain't you never heard that tale?
Not yet, Uncle Remus!
Lordy me, I declare to gracious...
I sure ought to told you about that.
Well, sir, once upon a time...
not your time, nor yet my time...
but one time, I was going fishing.
And I was just thinking how the flowers and critters is curious things.
They can look in your heart and tell when it sings.
If it's whistling a tune or singing a song, they all say "howdy" when you come along.
Howdy, Uncle Remus.
Good morning, good morning, girls.
Hello, Uncle Remus.
Oh, good morning, Miss Nellie.
How do you do? Mighty pleasant greeting.
How do you do? Say it when you're meeting. How do you do? With everyone repeating...
Pretty good, sure as you're born!
What goes up is sure to come down.
A penny lost is a penny found.
I'll howdy you and you howdy back; this for that and tit for tat.
How do you do?
Fine, how are you? How you come on?
Pretty good, sure as you're born!
Stop jumping, Brer Rabbit, you'll run out of breath.
Why don't you sit down and calm yourself?
Well, the grasshopper jumps and so does the flea.
I do what I like and I suits me!
I don't know where you gonna fetch up at, I surely don't.
How do you do?
Fine, how are you?
How you come on?
Pretty good, sure as you're born.
The weather's good. The fishing's fine, Now, what do you do with all your time?
Oh, I zips and I zags. I to's and I fro's.
That's what you ask me and that's what you knows.
How do you do?
Fine, how are you?
How you come on?
Pretty good, sure as you're born.
Mind out Brer Rabbit, better mend your ways.
You's heading for trouble one of these days.
Warning that rabbit is wasting your breath.
Don't worry about me. I can take care of myself.
Doggone, that Brer Rabbit is sure a caution... he sure is.
You mark my words, that... oh thanks...
That young scamp is gonna put his foot in it one of these days.
Course, I didn't know it at the time,
...but Brer Rabbit was heading straight for trouble
because up on Chickapin Hill at the edge of the Big Woods
old Brer Fox was powerful curious about the whereabouts of Brer Rabbit.
Here he come! Here he come! Here he come right now!
Let me see, where was I? Oh, yes, yes, yes... the head. Gotta have a head.
Gotta get a head right quick. Need about this much tar.
Yes, yes, about this much. I expect it's just about right for the head.
That biggity old rabbit won't get away this time, no sir.
Gonna catch him sure... I'll catch him sure.
Tha-...tha-...that's what you said the last time before...
and the time before that and the... look...
Let's just knock his head clean off.
Oh, no, indeed! They ain't nothing smart about that!
I'm gonna show him who the smartest is, And the tar baby'll do the rest.
It sure gonna fool him! Yes sir!
Oh ,man, it hai-...hai-...it ain't gonna fool nobody! Hm. It ain't got no eyes!
Eyes! Oh, yes, indeed. Eyes! I'm glad I thought of that!
Lemme see now... hm-mm-mm... let me see about this. Just about this size.
Now... ah... le-le-let me see. Oh, yes. A nose too...
Got to have a nose. Need one of those very very badly. Got to have a nose!
This is sure gonna do the trick. This is lookin' more natural all the time.
-It even begin to fool me! -It ain't- It ain't- It ain't got no hair.
Uh... hair?
Bu- bu- ... Now don't... woauut!
Now... Mm-hm. Alright, come on, help me along, help me long, come on.
Us ain't got all day. Come on. That rabbit's coming down the road! Come on.
That rabbit gonna be along any minute now, any minute.
Everything got to be just right. Yes indeed...
Just right. Let me see now, let me see... Maybe you ought to have a hat.
Mm-hm. Maybe he do need a hat. Now maybe if he had one...
He got one.
- Huh? - What's that?
Here he come! Here he come now. Hurry. hurry. Gotta get along. Come on! Gotta-ge-c'mon!
Look at that rascal scamperin' down the road. Lord, lord, lord!
Be quiet he can hear you! Shhhhh!
I'll fix him! I'll kill him.
W-w-w-what I... woauut!
Yes, sir, old Brer Fox, he get the tar baby fixed up just in the nick of time.
Because, right then, Brer Rabbit come dancing down the road
lickety-clippety, just as fast as a jay bird,
until, by and by, he spotted that tar baby. Then he sing out...
How do you do?
Brer Rabbit wait for the tar baby to say "Fine, how are you?",
but the tar baby he don't say nothin', And Brer Fox, he lay low... so...
Brer Babbit try it again.
How do you do?
But the tar baby ain't say nothin'...
Then Brer Rabbit scratch one ear with his off behind foot and allow...
he going find out why he can't get no answer.
Then he say, says he...
What's the matter with you? I said, howdy! Is you hard of hearin'? I said, HOWDY!!!
But the tar baby, he don't say nothin' and Brer Fox, he lay low.
Ooh I hope he hit him... I hope it works! I sure hope it do!
Brer Rabbit allow it's up to him to teach the
stuck-up stranger some manners, and he say...
Look, if you don't say "howdy" time I counts three, I might bust you wide open!
But the tar baby he don't say nothin' and Brer Fox, he lay low.
Duhh- he-... -Be quiet!
Be quiet don't make no noise! SHHHH!!
So Brer Rabbit, he start countin'.
One...
but the tar baby, him say nothin'...
Brer Fox lay low and chuckle in his stomach.
Two...
But still the tar baby don't say nothin'! Brer Fox, he lay low with the fidgets.
Two and a half!
Three!
Here! Bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu- Turn me loose!
I got him, I got him, I got him!
Turn me loose or I'll poke you again! Let me go!
Brer Rabbit, he push and he pull, he heave and he haul!
He kick and he squeal and he blubber and he bawl!
But the more he thrash around, the worse off he gets, 'til he so stuck up,
he can scarcely move his eyeballs.
Oh! How do you do.
Yeah, how you come on.
He's wishin' he'd never been born.
- Brer Fox, you and me... - Well, Brer Rabbit...
you sure looks like a sport, all stuck up in your swallow-tail coat!
Don't he look good in this coat? I ain't
- never seen nobody look that good before. - Le-...le-...lemme say... uh....
Other folks business you minds the best!
Don't say no more, we see the rest.
We sure do; we don't need to see nobody else.
What I's gonna say is, uh...
He's a pretty smart feller, the folks all say.
Yeah, he knows a lot a tricks...
But he forgot 'em today!
-He forgot everything, didn't he Brer Bear? -Well I... uh... but I...
Well, sir...
You ain't never see'd nobody that had humble come to tumbleness
down as fine as what Brer Rabbit had it then.
Poor little critter... He learned a powerful lesson,
but he learned it too late...
But it just goes to show you what comes of mixin' up with something
you got no business with in the first place...
And don't you never forget it!
How did Brer Rabbit get away, Uncle Remus?
Who say he get away?
-Brer Rabbit always gets away. -Don't you be too sure...
Ain't I done told you that Brer Rabbit, bein' little and without much strength,
...he's supposed to use his head instead of his foots?
Did he?
Sure he did!
Now, who tellin' this here tale?
You are!
Then you just sit and do the listening.
Well, sir, there he was, sittin' in the middle of the road...
...just like you's sittin' in that chair...
Only he's all mixed up with that tar baby...
...and it sure look like the end of the finish for poor little Brer Rabbit,
'cause old Brer Fox was fixin' to barbeque him for dinner, right then and there!
Yes sir, yes sir, just any minute now...
Won't be long now. Dinner gonna be ready any minute now.
All you have to do is put a few more sticks on the fire. Get the fire going good.
Oh, excuse me, you is gonna stay for dinner, ain't ya, Brer Rabbit?
We ain't gonna take no excuses. Now, we just love to have you for dinner!
Wouldn't we just love to have him for dinner, Brer Bear?
Ain't that just what you been sayin'?
Duh-....n-n-n-NO sir!
Wwu-wu-what I said was...
I'm gonna knock his head clean off.
No please not that not that no no
-stop stop now please no no wait a minute -I'm da... don't wai... look...
now don't no you can't do that
-no no no no no no no no no -I'm gonna... It's just, uh...
No sir he's mine! I caught him; you keep your hands off!
But, look, I'm gonna knock his head-...
No no no that's too quick! We gonna make him suffer!
And I'm gonna do it the way I wanna do it!
-Buuuu... AAAAwwwwwww! -Oh I know got it right in the back of my
little head. I know what we gonna do. First -NOOOW LOOK!
I'm gonna knock his head-...
Go ahead, Brer Bear! Heh-ha... Come on! Knock my head clean off!
-Duhh... hee... now, see there? -Yes sir!
But, please, don't fling me in that briar patch!
Now look here, you keep outta this! Ain't none of your business!
Maybe I'll hang him. That's it! I'll hang him! Hang him by the neck 'til he's dead!
Hang me if you like Brer Fox. Go ahead, but don't fling me that briar patch.
Well, I-I got no rope for to hang you.. so I expects- I expects I'll have to skin ya!
- Yeah, sure... that's... what's that? - I said I'm gonna skin ya.
Skin me? Oh yeah, h-heh... go ahead! He-heh
Yes sir... skin me if ya likes, Brother Fox.
But bu-bu-bu-but there's one thing I don't want you to do.
- Huh? What's that? - Uh-uh-uh bu-bu-Brer Fox...
I-I-I-I-I mean... Wa-wa-wa-whatever you do, Brother Fox.. w-w-whatever you do please..
Please Brother Fox, pleeease don't fling me in that briar patch!
Ahhhhh... briar patch?
Briar Patch!!
I'm glad I thought of that! Yes, indeed! I sure am glad I thought of that!
But ya ain't gonna fling me in there, is ya?
Who me? Oh no.
We ain't gonna do that! No sir! We wouldn't do that!
-We wouldn't do that... would we Brer Bear? -Duh... hee hee... uhh...
-We ain't gonna take advantage this time! -Nope! We just gonna knock...
...his head clean off.
Oh lordy! Look out! That's my head! Now wait a minute stop it!
-But you said that... uhh... -Just stop! Said stop! Stop! stop! THERE!
Owww! I-I-I'm done for!
Murder!
Yes sir, Brother Fox, I was born and bred in the briar patch!
Yes sir! Born and bred in the briar patch.
So now, it's Brer Fox's turn to feel humble-come-tumble.
But old Brer Bear, he don't say nothing.
And Brer Fox, he lay low!
Mighty low... sure enough.
Tell us another one, Uncle Remus.
The one you told daddy... about Brer Frog havin' a tail...
- and losin' it? - That's it.
Well then, how can there be a tale...
when they ain't no ta-...
I could tell ya, but that's another tale for another day.
Now you better run along and get that pup something to chew on besides my shoes.
Come on, Toby.
How do you do?
Fine, how are you?
How you come on?
Pretty good, sure as your born.
Just 'cause old Remus take your side don't mean we ain't gonna get Teenchy.
- You wait And see! - We're gonna tell on you.
- Yeah! Gonna tell Tempy-... - Or maybe your grandma...
or maybe even your ma.
Go ahead! I don't care! You can tell Aunt Tempy,
you can tell grandma, you can even tell my mama.
But whatever you do... don't tell your maw!
Why not?
Just don't you tell her, that's all! If you do, it'll be awful!
Ain't that what Brer Rabbit did to Brer Fox?
Sh! Bein' little and without much strength,
we supposed to use our heads instead of our foots.
Now, I don't want to hear no more about it.
That's Ginny's dog
and if she wants to give it away, it ain't none of your business!
I'll get even with that Johnny! He'll find out! Think's he so smart.
It weren't his fault. He told us not to tell our ma.
Yeah! Because that's just what he wanted us to do!
Sooner or later, yer gonna be comin' aroun',
I betcha, I betcha that I getcha,
you wait and see...
Sooner or later your gonna be hangin' around... I betcha...
I betcha if I catch ya you'll hear from me.
Your gonna knock on my door... you done it before...
Matter of factly, I don't know exactly when,
but sooner or later you're gonna be hanging around
and want my cookin' again.
Your gonna knock on my door, you done it before
Matter of factly I expected you exactly then,
'cause sooner or later I know you'll be hanging around
and want my cookin' again.
But you ain't gonna get it.
Always manage to come callin' on bakin' day
and totin' in three or four measley little piece of fire wood. Humph!
Some folks does the work, while others jest visits.
Sit around whittlin' and tellin' stories like Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit.
Stick his nose in this here kitchen and we have Brer Rabbit stew.
Sis Tempy, I said it before, I says it now, and I says it again:
there never was a better cook in these here parts nor nowhere else.
Humph! Ya ain't pullin' no wool over my eyes. Here!
What you all doing around here, anyhow?
- We wants to see Miss Sally. - Yeah.
What you want to see her about?
- About our dog. - Yeah.
Why, it ain't their dog. It's Johnny's.
- No it ain't. - What's that?
When he brung it here, Miss Sally told him to
take it right straight back what he got it.
Why that little scamp.
- Where you going? - To get Miss Sally.
Ooooh... oh.
Ain't I done told you to stop pesterin' folks about that mangy old puppy?
Now go on home. Go on, before I gets fractious!
- We ain't going until we sees Miss Sally. - Yeah.
Miss Sally ain't got no time to be bothered with you.
And she don't want to hear no talk about that dog, neither.
What's this all about?
- Johnny's got our dog. - And we we wants it back!
Your dog? You don't mean that little puppy?
Yes ma'am. Johnny took it down to old Remus so that you wouldn't know.
Is that right, Uncle Remus?
Well, you see, Miss Sally,
- I had-... - I see.
Uncle Remus will get your dog back to you. Now run along, please.
- You gonna whoop johnny? - You ought to!
Johnny said he didn't care if we told you, but not to tell our ma.
And when we told her, she gived us a whoopin'.
Lordy, Miss Sally, Johnny didn't mean no harm.
He was just trying to be like Brer Rabbit. I told him a tale about the tar baby...
And he just got a little bit too bodacious, and outreached his self, that's all.
Uncle Remus...
I'm trying my best to bring up Johnny to be obedient and truthful.
But you and your stories are making that very difficult.
I think maybe it would be better if he didn't hear any more for awhile.
- Well, Miss Sally, the stories ain't done n- - They only confuse him.
Now I know you mean well, Uncle Remus, but Johnny's too young.
Miss Sally...
I'll have to ask you not to tell him any more.
Yes ma'am, Miss Sally...
But what else could I have done, mama?
I can't just overlook it, he has to learn to mind.
That's very true,
but without Uncle Remus and his stories the child will be utterly desolate.
He needs something to hold on to.
Well, he has his mother and his grandmother.
We're not enough, Sally. The boy must have friends.
And if it's not Uncle Remus, or the Favers children, then it must be someone else.
Someone of his own age.
That's just good common sense.
What you trackin' through here for anyway?
Ain't I done told you about messin' around my kitchen?
Johnny!
Yes, mama.
Do you know what next tuesday is?
Uh... of course. My birthday.
That's right, dear. And what happens then?
I get presents.
And a birthday party. Would you like that?
A party? Sure!
With lots of nice little boys and girls.
Can I ask Ginny?
Well, there'll be so many other children, dear...
That one more won't make any difference.
Gee! Thanks!
Will daddy come?
Well, dear... uh...
I'll write and ask him.
Oh boy!
Teenchy! Here Teenchy!
Teenchy! Where are you?
Uncle Remus? A present for Teenchy!
Where's Teenchy?
He's gone.
Gone?
Then we gotta find him.
Something might happen to him if he runs around loose.
He ain't runnin' around loose.
Then, where is he?
He's back at the Favers.
That's what he brlongs and you knows it.
But Teenchy's my dog. He's mine.
- Ginny gave him to me, and you said.. - nevermind what I said!
Your ma told you to take that dog back where he come from.
And you ain't done it. She don't like that. I don't blame her.
But he wasn't botherin' anybody.
She your ma. She knows what's best for you.
But... but... I... I love him. He... he loves me.
You should't have done it, Uncle Remus. Jake'll drown him! I know he will!
Ain't no use of you carryin' on.
Puppy's gone and... that's that.
You don't even care! Teenchy's gone... and you don't care at all.
Don't make no difference whether I does or whether I don't.
I'm just a wore out old man what ain't no good to nobody.
But Uncle Remus, you're the best friend I have.
maybe so.
But I'm that pestered I don't know whether I'm end-upwards or end-downwards.
But I does know this...
I ain't going to be tellin' you no more stories.
Chicken, me chicken, me crane-y crow! I went to the well to wash my toe!
When I got there, the well was bare! What time is it, old witch?
- Hurry, maw, hurry! - I'm doing the best I can.
Please, ma! The party'll be over.
If you don't quit bobbin' up and down I'll never get this collar on.
I'm just doing like you told me.
Well, don't forget what you says when you does it.
Pleased to meet ya!
That's the girl. Now you looks pretty enough to go anywheres.
Ginny! Come on... we're late.
Ginny! Don't forget your manners.
Pleased to meet ya!
Gee, I thought you were never comin'.
Pa didn't get home with the thread
and ma had an awful time finishing my dress. Like it?
It's real pretty.
It's brand new. It was ma's wedding dress. Are we gonna have cake?
Course! They're eatin' it right now. But there'll be plenty left.
What do you do at a party... besides have cake?
Oh, lots of things. Play games, and get presents.
Do I get a present?
Sure... Everybody does. Course, I get the most.
Go on home.
I'll tell ma.
Don't pay any attention to them, Ginny.
Don't pay any attention to 'em, Ginny!
Quit it!
- Pretty strings. - You stop it.
Now look what you've done!
You've spoiled everything!
Ouch! Don't! Stop!
Make him let go! Make him let go!
Make him let go! Joe, get him off!
- I'll fix you! - Pull him off, Joe! Get him off!
- I'll fix you! - Ouch! Don't! Stop!
Make him let go! Make him let go!
Aw right, get off of him! Come on, son! Get off of him! Get off of him.
Now you two get along.
And don't let me catch you pesterin' around these children no more! And I means it.
Ginny!
Ginny...
Gee, ginny! Please don't cry!
We can still go to the party... if you want to.
I'll clean off your dress.
You're just makin' it worse.
It wasn't much of an old party anyway.
I know what!
I'll tell you a story about Brer Rabbit!
Now let me see...
about this here Brer Rabbit...
He was the most bodacious critter in the whole world.
Anyway... the critters was all havin' a big party...
Please, don't Ginny! Please!
Bless my soul! What's dis?
Ginny can't go to the party.
Oh, that's a shame! It sure is.
But don't you cry honey.
Old Uncle Remus'll take care of you.
You better run along and find Sis Tempy to clean you up before your ma sees you.
Uncle Remus, I don't wanta go.
Course you do!
Miss Sally's gone to a heap of trouble with this party.
I know...
...but daddy didn't come and Ginny's all dirty.
Please, Uncle Remus...
Move over, honey. I's got troubles too.
Course I's had troubles before.
But they ain't none of us ever had troubles like poor little Brer Rabbit.
I remember one time he had more troubles than all three of us rolled into one.
Yes sir, there he was... waaay down in Brer Fox's cave...
And it look like his time done run out, for sure...
'Cause Brer Rabbit, he done used up his whole bag of tricks.
You done played your last trick on me, Brer Rabbit.
You sure have, yes sir. You done played your last trick on me. Here, hold that knot
You sure look mighty good in that bow-tie, Brer Rabbit, yes sir!
You looks mighty good in that bow-tie!
Don't he look good in that bow-tie, Brother Bear?
Duh, he... yeah, he...
I ain't never seen nobody dressed with a bow-tie before.
- He's all dressed up for dinner. - Yea, for dinner. He-...
Yes sir, he's really dressed up for dinner. For my dinner.
'Cause I's gonna barbeque you this very minute! On that fire!
-Ain't that terrible! Ha-ha! -Huh!?
Now wait a minute. Wait a minute, Brer Rabbit!
Maybe I better explain something to you.
I said, I's gonna roast you! On that fire!
Now, is that somethin' to laugh about?
I can't help laughing, Brer Fox. I just been to my lauging place.
An everytime I starts thinkin' about my Laughing Place, I can't help- AHAHAHAA!!
- What's a... - Yeah, Brer Bear?
Wa... what's a Laughing Place?
-Oh, that just a secret place I knows about -Well, uh...
You keep out of this Brer Bear! It's another one of his tricks.
-That rabbit just trying t- mmmh! -Duh... where is this Laughing Place at?
Now how can I show you where it is when I's all tied up like this?
Well, uh... I'll untie you.
- You keep your big paws off that rabbit! - But uh... But uh...
He's mine and I'm gonna roast him. I'm roast him right now.
-Right on this fire. I'm gonna... -NOW LOOK!
I wanna see that Laughing Place.
Boy am I in luck!
I think about my Laughing Place and yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk!
Everybody's got a Laughing Place. A Laughing Place to go, ho ho.
Take that frown, turn it upside down. And you'll find yours, I know, ho ho.
Boy am I in luck.
I think about that Laughing Place. Heyyuk, yuk, yuk, yuk, yuk.
Everybody's got a laughing place. A Laughing Place to go, ho ho.
Take your frown, turn it upside down. And you'll find yours, I know, ho ho.
Now look here Brer Bear, this has gone far enough, I...
Now look here Brer Bear, this has gone far enough. I ain't going
- But I wanna... -one more step. Not one more step.
-But I-I aauhhh... -No you don't, this is one of his tricks.
What you remember that rabbit's just made a fool out of you, you fool!
- Huh? He is? - Course he is.
There ain't no such thing as a Laughing Place.
- Huh? Uh, there ain't? - Course not.
Come on now, let's get him home and get on some...
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. There it is!
- Huh? - There is the Laughing Place.
- Where? - Right through there!
- That rabbit's just trying to fool... - Me first! Me first! He-hyuuuh!
Hey, there ain't nothing' in here except bees.
You sure done made a fool out of yourself this time.
Yes sir, you sure done made a fool out of yourself!
I ain't never seen nobody look that silly before.
You know what Brer-... AAAH!!!
NOW LOOK!!!
You said this was a Laughing Place...
and I ain't laughing...
I didn't say it was your Laughing Place.
I said it was my Laughing Place, Brer Bear.
- I wish I had a Laughing Place. - Me too.
What makes you think you ain't? Course you got a laughin' place.
- Really, Uncle Remus? - Really?
Everybody's got one! The trouble is
...most folks won't take time to go look for it.
Where's mine?
Well now, that I can't exactly say. because where it is for one,
Mightn't be where it is for another.
Come on Ginny! Let's start lookin'!
Johnny!
Johnny! Where have you been?
- Well, you... - Look at your clothes!
What in the world have you been doing? The party's all over, dear.
And you weren't even there to tell your guests goodbye.
- Well, you... - Uncle Remus told us a story!
About Brer Rabbit. You got a laughin' place ma'am?
Uncle Remus says everybody's got one.
Pleased to meetcha.
I sure is sorry, Miss Sally.
No, it's my fault.
I should have known, you couldn't stop telling your stories.
I don't like to say this Uncle Remus,
but from now on I want you to stay away from Johnny, you understand?
Completely away.
Yes ma'am.
Let the rain pour down, let the cold wind blow.
Gonna stay right here, in the home I know.
When your achin' with the misery, when you're old and grey.
Then you better be thankful, that he let you stay.
Let you stay to see the children
-playin' 'round your door. -Oh, I knows... I knows...
I'm just a wore out old man what don't do nothing but tell stories.
But they ain't never done no harm to nobody.
And if they don't do no good...
...how come they last so long?
This here's the only home I knows.
I was going to whitewash the walls, too.
But not now.
Time done run out.
Uncle Remus! Is Johnny...
Uncle Remus, what you doin'?
I is going away.
To Atlanta.
You sure I've got a Laughing Place?
- Course! Didn't Uncle Remus say so? - Look!
Aww, that's just your house.
But pa's home! I'm gonna tell him about Brer Rabbit!
He'll laugh like anything!
Uncle Remus! Uncle Remus!
Uncle Remus, I've found it!
My Laughing Place! It's right here...
Mama!
He's gone! Uncle Remus is gone!
Where'd he go, mama?
I don't know, son.
- But why'd he leave? Why? - I'm afraid mother's to blame.
Miss Sally ! Uncle Remus going away! He's gettin' in the wagon!
Uncle Remus! Wait!!
Uncle Remus!
Johnny!
Uncle Remus! Come Back.
Wait, Uncle Remus! Wait!
Oh, dear Johnny!
More and more faith in him.
He made all the stars and the moon and the sun.
More and more faith in him.
He number the sparrows and the birds everyone.
More and more faith in him.
My Savior!
All I want... All I want... All I want...
more and more faith in him.
My Savior!
All I want... All I want...
Toby, what is it?
It's Johnny, sir. He got hurt by that bull.
- Mister John! - How is he?
Well, he's out of his head, sir,
and talkin' like his little heart's about to break.
You see, Mister John, he was cuttin' through the bull pasture...
trying to stop Uncle Remus from going away.
Angel have mercy on this little child
More and more faith in him.
He's only been here such a mighty little while.
More and more faith in him.
Son, daddy's here.
Uncle Remus! Come back, Uncle Remus! Come back!
Johnny!
Uncle Remus... Please.
Uncle Remus!
The smoke was comin' outta the chimney...
and the light from the lamps was a-shinin' soft.
Inside the house, the kettle was singin' over the fire.
On the hearth, the cricket was a-jiggin' to the tune.
Yes sir...
Things was mighty satisfactual.
because Brer Rabbit done come back to his Laughing Place...
with the folks all around him... what belonged.
Uncle Remus!
And that night, he was the happiest Brer Rabbit.
And that was the laughin'est place in the whole wide world!
Daddy.
Mama! Daddy's here! Mama!
- She's right here, son. - Yes, darling. It's all right!
Mama! Make him stay, please!
There now, son. I'm not going anywhere.
I'm going to stay right here, where I belong.
Honest?
Honest.
And we'll have more fun than... than Brer Rabbit his self.
And we'll have the laughin'est place in the whole wide world.
And that's the truth!
Miss Doshy...
Things are lookin' mighty satisfactual.
Mighty satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-do-dah zip-a-dee-ay. My oh my, what a wonderful day.
Plenty of sunshine headin' my way. Zip-a-dee-do-dah zip-a-dee-ay.
Mr. Bluebird's on my shoulder. It is the truth, It's actual.
Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-do-dah zip-a-dee-ay, wonderful feeling, wonderful day.
Zip-a-dee-do-dah zip-a-dee-ay. My oh my, what a wonderful day.
Plenty of sunshine headin' my way...
Howdy do, how do you do.
-Oh, hello there Brer Rabbit. -Hi there, Brer Rabbit!
Yes sir, this here's one of them zip-a-dee-do-dah days, for sure!
Zip, zip, zip, zip, zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay.
My oh my, what a wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine headin' my way,
Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Mr. Bluebird's on my shoulder.
It's the truth. It's actual. Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-do-dah zip-a-dee-ay.
My oh my, what a wonderful day!
Plenty of sunshine, headin' my way, wonderful feeling, wonderful day!
Zip-a-dee-do-dah zip-a-dee-ay,
Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip!
Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. My oh my, what a wonderful day.
Plenty of sunshine, headin' my way.
Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! Mr. Bluebird's on my shoulder.
It's really true, it's actual.
Everything is satisfactual.
Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Oh, what a wonderful feeling!
What a wonderful day.
Singing a song, a Song Of The South.