Polly Darton by a country fence, looking 13 carrots, laid out in a row)
Polly Darton: Oh, hi there. My name is Polly Darton, and I'd like to sing a song for you, but I can't. The song I'd like to called, "14 Carrot Love", but as you can see, I only have (slowly counting carrots) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 carrots. Mm-hmm.
(Benny Rabbit, with a carrot in his mouth, hops by her, and then stops to look on)
How can I sing a song 14 carrot love, when I only have 13 carrots?
(she Benny)
Benny: Uh-oh. (tries to away)
Polly Darton: Look! Did you see that with that carrot?
(Benny stops, skyward, his escape foiled)
I wonder if he'd let me borrow it. (calls) bunny, bunny, bunny!
Benny: (spitting out the carrot) Hey! call me Bunny! The name is Benny!
Polly Darton: Well, I'm sorry, Benny. I was if I could borrow that carrot there.
Benny: (shocked) No! No way, no chance! No how! This is my carrot, and I gotta get downtown, so goodbye! (picks up carrot in his again)
Polly Darton: Oh please? You have one carrot and I have 13 carrots. (Benny puts carrot back down) If I add your carrot and my 13, have (slowly counting carrots) 1, 2...
Yeah yeah yeah...
Polly ...3, 4...
Benny: Come on, I get downtown!
Polly ...5, 6, 7, 8...
Benny: Yeah yeah...
Darton: ...9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 carrots.
14, yeah.
Polly Darton: And I can my song.
No, no way, forget it!
Polly Darton: Aw, please? Don't do it for me - do it for the children! Please?
Benny: (Squeaks his teeth as he thinks about it) Oh, all right all right all right. You can borrow my carrot. But you have to give it back. And you can't, I say you can't nibble on it,
Darton: Okay, okay. Thank you! Thank you, you -
Benny: Yeah yeah...
Polly ...wonderful little bunny, you!
Benny: (appalled) Don't call me Bunny! The is BENNY!!!
(music starts, she now sings)
Polly These carrots from the garden Are as you see In one big bunch As as can be
(unimpressed) Yeah...
Polly Darton: The bunch has 13 But it takes a shove
(Benny starts into the beat)
To add another And get 14 love!
14 love!
(Benny starts squeaking his teeth in to the music)
14 love! is what we got here - 14 love! It's than some flowers Or candy on a
(Benny's getting into it)
And it's all 'cause of I this song to sing
Together: 14 love! 14 love! That's we got here - 14 love!
(music ends, but Benny keeps singing, back on the fence)
14 carrot love! 14 carrot love!
Polly (calling to him) Hey hey! Benny! Song's over, Benny!
Benny: (still singing) That's what we've got here! 14 ca- (stops) Oh yeah yeah yeah, right right, well I gotta go anyway. Yeah yeah, I'm gonna take my carrot here, and get outta here ...
Polly Hey, hey you can have all those carrots, Benny. Just my way of sayin' thank you.
Benny: (blown away) Oh! Oh gee, well, um ... but I don't what to say!
Polly Darton: Aw, you he really is a sweet little bunny!
Benny: (shouting) Don't call me Bunny! The is Benny!
(squeaks his teeth as notes of the song replay)