Do you know this song?

[douglisa]

Kinda like;
Name that tune!
Fun game
Here is the first.
Ohhh, mares eat oats and doe's eat oats and little lambs eat Ivy.....

 

[princesspiglet]

...I would eat Ivy too, wouldn't you??

For the longest time, I had no idea what the correct words were to this song.!

 

[legalsea]

Isn't the title "Marsey Doats"?

 

[nhrenee]

The things you learn on the DIS There's more to the article than what I copied.Mairzy Doats
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia• Have questions? Find out how to ask questions and get answers. •Jump to: navigation, search
Mairzy Doats is a novelty song composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. It was first played on radio station, WOR New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. The song made the pop charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1 in March 1944. In addition to its success on the home front, it was also a hit with American servicemen overseas, who allegedly used its nonsensical lyrics as passwords.

At first glance, the song's refrain, as written on the sheet music, seems to be meaningless:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
However, the lyrics of the bridge provide a clue:

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy."
With this aid, the refrain is quite easily comprehended, and the ear will detect the hidden message of the final line: "A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?"

 

[marlynnp]

Yep ~ Mairzy Doats! My grandad used to sing me that song and this one...

The billy goat was feeling fine;
He ate six red shirts from off Sal's line.
Sal took a stick and broke his back,
And tied him to the railroad track.
A fast express was drawing nigh.
That goat was doomed, but not to die:
He gave three shrieks in rage and pain,
Coughed up those shirts and flagged the train.

 

[TonyB]

Renee, wikipedia was the first place I went to as well. Great New England minds think alike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats

 

[Aardvarks]

Mares eat oats
and does eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy
a kid 'll eat ivy too
wouldn't you?

 

[douglisa]

Yep ~ Mairzy Doats! My grandad used to sing me that song and this one...

The billy goat was feeling fine;
He ate six red shirts from off Sal's line.
Sal took a stick and broke his back,
And tied him to the railroad track.
A fast express was drawing nigh.
That goat was doomed, but not to die:
He gave three shrieks in rage and pain,
Coughed up those shirts and flagged the train.

Never heard that one!

 

[douglisa]

nhrenee, thanks for the history on it! That is just so cool. My mom always sang this to me.

How bout this one...
My mom gave me a nickle to buy a pickle.....
Anyone know the rest? Name that tune!!! (loved that show)

 

[GeorgeG]

I've never understood that song, and now... I still don't...

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

We had the Disney Babies Lullabys cassette tape when DD was little. This song was on it. It was used in an animated feature, wasn't it?

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

With this aid, the refrain is quite easily comprehended, and the ear will detect the hidden message of the final line: "A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?"

HIdden message? Do tell!.

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

So that's what that song is about. I always thought it was a little goofy.

 

[douglisa]

Gwarsh, I love goofy.

 

[Donnie Joe Diser]

I think it's kinda morbid that Ring Around the Rosey is about the Plague. Morbid in a really cool trivial pursuit kinda way.

 

[golfgal]

The things you learn on the DIS There's more to the article than what I copied.Mairzy Doats
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia• Have questions? Find out how to ask questions and get answers. •Jump to: navigation, search
Mairzy Doats is a novelty song composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. It was first played on radio station, WOR New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. The song made the pop charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1 in March 1944. In addition to its success on the home front, it was also a hit with American servicemen overseas, who allegedly used its nonsensical lyrics as passwords.

At first glance, the song's refrain, as written on the sheet music, seems to be meaningless:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
However, the lyrics of the bridge provide a clue:

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy."
With this aid, the refrain is quite easily comprehended, and the ear will detect the hidden message of the final line: "A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?"

Thank you for posting that. When the OP had her words there I thought I was singing it wrong all these years--I guess I am not

 

[tchrrx]

Is this more of a New England thing? I know it, but only b/c my papa sang it every summer when I visited him in NH.

 

[NotUrsula]

No, it's a British nursery rhyme that was done over as a popular American jazz song in the 1940's. It was a HUGE hit in the US and the UK during WW2.

My parents had my oldest siblings during the War, and Mom used to sing this to me as well as "Three Little Fishies" which was also a popular radio hit.

 

[LindaG4458]

nhrenee, thanks for the history on it! That is just so cool. My mom always sang this to me.

How bout this one...
My mom gave me a nickle to buy a pickle.....
Anyone know the rest? Name that tune!!! (loved that show)

I didn't buy a pickle, I bought some chewing gum
Chew, chew, chew, chew, chew, chewing gum,
How I love chewing gum
Chew, chew, chew, chew, chew, chewing gum,
How I love chewing gum


My grandmother used to sing this to me when I was very small in the 1950s.

 

[paigevz]

This one was popular with my grandmother and mom to sing to me too. Along with Shortnin' bread, and some take off on Mary Had a Little Lamb that I don't remember all of.........."Mary had a William goat, william goat, william goat, Mary had a william goat its stomach was lined with lead". He eats a ton of stuff including dynamite, the dynamite explodes and "Mary's soul to heaven went, heaven went, heaven went, Mary's soul to heaven went" sung very slowly, "and whoopdoodledoodledoo, Billy's went to heaven too" very fast! I loved that song.