Mick Hartley

As interpreted by Mel Blanc in Daffy Duck's Rhapsody:

There's so much I'd like to do if I just had the chance
I'd like to play and romp and even sing and do a dance

I would read the latest book
Go swimming in the babbling brook
I'd like to fly the seven seas
Play hide and seek among the trees
I'd play hop scotch and double dutch
And this and that and things and such
I know that isn't asking much
But all these things I daresn't touch

It's bang! bang! here, and bang! bang! there
Bullets flying everywhere
I can't stand it any longer
I get weak and they get stronger.

Hunters to the right of me
Hunters to the left I see
Over hill and over dale
Bullets whizzing past my tail….

For some reason it's a tune popular with piano-playing animals, as, for instance, Bugs Bunny or Tom and Jerry. Which came first? There's some debate on the subject.