I first heard it
in 1982 or so, from a coffee house performer at my college, a man named Dennis D'Asaro. God knows where he got it from. Sometime this weekend I'll record my singing it as an mp3 and send it to you.

I never knew that this was why they used to be white, though I can remember that!

And oddly enough, as a child I remember finding white pellets in the yard that were droppings from wild rabbits. When we were pre-school age we threw them at each other one day until the neighbor's mother caught us at it and screamed at us for ten minutes...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 18 Apr 2008, 17:15, Reply)