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Old Nov 26th 2007 | 12:52 am
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Originally Posted by Carol&John
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This thread made me smile and reminded me of this rhyme. Can anyone translate?
"Mairsy dotes an dozy dotes,
an likkle lamzy divey...
A tiddly divey, too,
wouldn't you?"


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Isn't it ...

mares eat oats and does eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy
but kids'll eat ivy too
wouldn't you?

 
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Tho' this song sounds queer
and funny to your ear-
a little bit deevy and divey-
 
Old Nov 26th 2007 | 2:37 am
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Originally Posted by tednsharon
Isn't it ...

mares eat oats and does eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy
but kids'll eat ivy too
wouldn't you?

Correct, Sharon!
John was 20+ when he discovered that these were the real words to the song/rhyme he had rehearsed at school!
 
Old Nov 26th 2007 | 2:38 am
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Originally Posted by Lenox
Tho' this song sounds queer
and funny to your ear-
a little bit deevy and divey-
Is this verse two?
 
Old Nov 26th 2007 | 7:02 am
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It's the bit that goes in the middle -between the 'mariedotes' stuff and the 'mares eat oats'.
Sorry - some Cocknies used to sing it in the bars with my parents years back - along with 'I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked abaht a bit' and 'Don't have any more missus Moore'.
The rest of them, once those first songs and round of drinks had been dispensed with, were dirty...
Come to think of it, we once translated 'Cats on the Rooftops..'
 

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