Peter Cottontail will be here quite a lot over the next few weeks, and his friends as well!

Here

Comes Peter Cottontail

Here

comes Peter Cottontail,

Hoppin' down the bunny trail,

Hippity,
hoppity, Easter's on its way.



Bringin'
every girl and boy

Baskets
full of Easter joy,

Things
to make your Easter bright and gay.

He's

got jelly beans for Tommy,

Colored

eggs for sister Sue,

There's

an orchid for your Mommy

And

an Easter bonnet, too.

Oh!

here comes Peter Cottontail,

Hoppin'

down the bunny trail,

Hippity

hoppity, Happy Easter day.

Here

comes Peter Cottontail,

Hoppin'

down the bunny trail,

Look

at him stop, and listen to him say:

"Try

to do the things you should."

Maybe

if you're extra good,

He'll

roll lots of Easter eggs your way.

You'll

wake up on Easter morning

And

you'll know that he was there

When

you find those choc'late bunnies

That

he's hiding ev'rywhere.

Oh!
here comes Peter Cottontail,

Hoppin'
down the bunny trail,

Hippity
hoppity, Happy Easter day.

Here Comes Peter Cottontail is a 1971 Easter television special made by Rankin-Bass, based on a 1957 novel by Priscilla and Otto Friedrich entitled The Easter Bunny That Overslept and featuring the title song "Here Comes Peter Cottontail"; it was originally broadcast on ABC-TV, and in later years, appeared on CBS. In 2006, it was followed by a direct to video sequel, Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie. The name "Peter Cottontail" comes from a series of books by Thornton W. Burgess,
who co-wrote the special, although it is not based directly on the
books. It is a story on how Peter Cottontail became the Easter Bunny.