Rabbit in the Pea Patch

Most modern versions go back to Uncle Dave Macon, who recorded the song and breakdown in 1927 with Kirk McGee and Mazy Todd on fiddles. The piece may be older, possibly from the minstrel stage, but nobody has traced it. A newspaper in Clarke County, Alabama, listed it in 1926 among the old tunes played at a contest in Jackson.

Herbert Halpert recorded Mississippi fiddler W.E. Claunch playing it for the Library of Congress in 1939, and A.B. Moore's 1934 History of Alabama calls it a standard square dance tune.