Three Blind Mice

JadensMama05 wrote: Anybody remember how this goes? All I can remember is the obvous..

MoonMama replied: Three blind mice.
Three blind mice.
See how they run.
See how they run.
They all ran after the farmers wife.
She cut off there tails with a caving knife.
Have you ever seen such a sight in your life.
Three blind mice.

Calimama replied: Three blind mice,
Three blind mice
See how they run,
See how they run!

They all ran after
The farmer's wife
She cut off their tails
With a carving knife
Did you ever see
Such a sight in your life
As three blind mice?

Kind of morbid.

sparkys2boys replied: LOL.. bet you never thought it was morbid as a child!! It's funny how we see things diffrently as a child.

Calimama replied:
I was just thinking that. I wonder what the farmers wife did to make them blind. Great.. the song is forever ruined.

Crystalina replied: Izabella used to have a cd with this song on it and they sang it like this...

Three blind mice,
Three blind mice
See how they run,
See how they run!

They all ran after
The farmer's wife
She caught them by their tails
And turned them twice.
Did you ever see
Such a sight in your life
As three blind mice?


I'm thinking they were trying to be less morbid but I would sing it the way I know with the whole chopping off of the tails. Izabella thinks that i'm just being sick and still think the version above is the right way.

CantWait replied:
and to think that's a children's nursery rhyme.

Calimama replied:
Exactly! When I wrote it out for her response I thought.. surely I've been singing it wrong!

JadensMama05 replied: Yeah wow. I don't remember it being so morbid. LOL. But Ring Around the Rosie is about the Black Plague and theres a few more arent there? Thank you so much for finishing it for me!

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Yep...

Ring around the rosies (ring of red around the zit type thing)
Pockets full of Posies (to mask the smell fo the dead everywhere)
Ashes Ashes (you had to burn the dead to wipe ouit contagion)
We all fall down (everyone's dying)

CantWait replied: What about Rock-a-bye Baby

Rockabye Baby on the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will Rock
When the bow breaks the cradle will fall
and down will come baby
Cradle and all.

MoonMama replied:
I was just going to post this. I agree


What about...

The Old Women And The Shoe

There was an old women,
who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children,
she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth,
without any bread.
And she whipped them all soundly,
and sent them to bed.

mckayleesmom replied: Ok.....a funny.....Russell seriously starts bawling when I sing Rock A By Baby to him....

JadensMama05 replied: OMGosh!! I never realized all those morbid nursey rhymes! Ahh! How funny.

Nina J replied: This one was my favorite when I was a kid:

Peter Peter, pumpkin eater
Had a wife, and couldn't keep her
Had another, didn't love her
Up the chimney he did shove her.

I don't know what its called or even if it is a nursery rhyme, as long as I can remember I've known it.

And I always liked this one:

Solomon Grundy,
Born on Monday
Christened on Tuesday
Married on Wednesday
Took Ill on Thursday
Worse on Friday
Died on Saturday
Buried on Sunday
That was the end of Solomon Grundy.

Some nursery rhymes are morbid and weird, but I never noticed when I was a kid.

holley79 replied: Man I'm glad to know I'm not the only one would couldn't remember the words.

CantWait replied:
Omgosh Robbie did the same thing when he was a baby. Soon as you'd start he would BAWL and SCREAM. I thought it was a fluke, but he did it right into preschool years.