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Who wrote Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy?
Milton Drake
Jerry LivingstonAl Hoffman
Mairzy Doats/Composers
What year did the song Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats come out?
2012
Mairzy Doats/Released
Who wrote the song Mares eat oats?
Who sang the song Mares eat oats?
The Merry Macs
Mairzy Doats/Artists
When was the song Mares eat oats?
1943
1943 by Miller Music Publishing Co. “Mairzy Doats” is a novelty song written and composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. The lyrics sound like gibberish when sung casually, but when enunciated more deliberately, can be understood. The song’s title, for example, becomes “Mares eat oats”.
Do kids eat ivy?
Kids eat ivy too. The song was first heard on the radio in New York at WOR station, sung by Al Trace and was then taken over in popular culture by various artists. Along with the notable Merry Macs band, The Pied Pipers where the ones that made the song popular (1944).
Who wrote Mairzy Doats?
Who sings the song mares eat oats?
Mares Eat Oats (Mairzy Doats) Inspired by an old traditional English rhyme for children, “Mairzy Doats” is a 1943 composition by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. The unintelligible lyrics of “Mairzy Doats” have a very pleasant melodic line and can be decrypted as “Mares Eat Oats”. Here are the lyrics:
What do mares eat?
Say, “Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy.” Oh, mairzy doats and dozy doats and little lambsy divey A kiddle divey, too. Wouldn’t you? Oh, mairzy doats and dozy doats and little lambsy divey A kiddle divey, too.
Where did the last two lines of Mare eat oats come from?
The scholars Iona and Peter Opie have noted that the last two lines of the song appear in an old catch which, when said quickly, appears to be in Latin: Mare eat oats. They trace the origin of the joke to a manuscript of about 1450 which has “Is gote eate yvy? Mare eate ootys”.
Where did the song Eat Ivy come from?
Kids eat ivy too. The song was first heard on the radio in New York at WOR station, sung by Al Trace and was then taken over in popular culture by various artists. Along with the notable Merry Macs band, The Pied Pipers where the ones that made the song popular (1944).