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'''Three Blind Mice''' is a children's nursery rhyme and musical round.
The modern words are:
:''Three blind mice. Three blind mice.''
:''See how they run. See how they run.''
:''They all ran after the farmer's wife''
:''Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.''
:''Did you ever see such a thing in your life''
:''As three blind mice?''
The first publication of this round is in Thomas Ravenscroft in 1609. The lyrics there are:
:''Three Blinde Mice,''
:''three Blinde Mice,''
:''Dame Iulian,''
:''Dame Iulian,''
:''The Miller and his merry olde Wife,''
:''shee scrapte her tripe licke thou the knife.''
There is an urban legend that this round was written earlier and refers
to Queen Mary I of England executing three Protestant
bishops. However, the earliest lyrics don't talk about killing the three blind mice, and are dated after Queen Mary died.
In several sports (basketball and hockey, for example, which have three referrees), "Three Blind Mice" is used as a derogatory phrase for poor referees. Bands also play the song to mock referees in similar cases. Such references, however, are heavily frowned upon officially by both sports as unsportsmanlike.[1][2][3]
Joseph Holbrooke (1878-1958) composed his Symphonic Variations, opus 37, based on ''Three Blind Mice''. Also, Joseph Haydn used its theme in the Finale (4th Mvt) of his Symphony 83 (''La Poule'') (1785-86); one of the 6 ''Paris symphonies''. Three blind mice was also used as a theme song for The Three Stooges and a Curtis Fuller arrangement of the rhyme is featured on the Art Blakey live album of the same name. 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" has Three Blind Mice playing in the end.
In the 1977 song "Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk" by Parliament, these lyrics are repeated several times:
"Three blind mice
See how they run
They all ran after the farmer's wife
Turned on the fun with the water pipe
Have you ever seen such a sight in your life?
Those three blind mice
Those blind three mice
The Beatles used the sentence "See how they run" in two of its songs, "I am the Walrus" and "Lady Madonna".
Before major-league baseball required four umpires at every game, there were regularly three. The Brooklyn Dodgers had a fan band called the "Sym-Phoney Band," led by Shorty Laurice, which started playing "Three Blind Mice" when the umpires came out onto the field until the league office ordered the team to stop it.
★ Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
1. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCM/is_2_30/ai_79743286
2. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2709823
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_Band
★ Scholarly analysis
The modern words are:
:''Three blind mice. Three blind mice.''
:''See how they run. See how they run.''
:''They all ran after the farmer's wife''
:''Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.''
:''Did you ever see such a thing in your life''
:''As three blind mice?''
The first publication of this round is in Thomas Ravenscroft in 1609. The lyrics there are:
:''Three Blinde Mice,''
:''three Blinde Mice,''
:''Dame Iulian,''
:''Dame Iulian,''
:''The Miller and his merry olde Wife,''
:''shee scrapte her tripe licke thou the knife.''
There is an urban legend that this round was written earlier and refers
to Queen Mary I of England executing three Protestant
bishops. However, the earliest lyrics don't talk about killing the three blind mice, and are dated after Queen Mary died.
In several sports (basketball and hockey, for example, which have three referrees), "Three Blind Mice" is used as a derogatory phrase for poor referees. Bands also play the song to mock referees in similar cases. Such references, however, are heavily frowned upon officially by both sports as unsportsmanlike.[1][2][3]
Joseph Holbrooke (1878-1958) composed his Symphonic Variations, opus 37, based on ''Three Blind Mice''. Also, Joseph Haydn used its theme in the Finale (4th Mvt) of his Symphony 83 (''La Poule'') (1785-86); one of the 6 ''Paris symphonies''. Three blind mice was also used as a theme song for The Three Stooges and a Curtis Fuller arrangement of the rhyme is featured on the Art Blakey live album of the same name. 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" has Three Blind Mice playing in the end.
In the 1977 song "Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk" by Parliament, these lyrics are repeated several times:
"Three blind mice
See how they run
They all ran after the farmer's wife
Turned on the fun with the water pipe
Have you ever seen such a sight in your life?
Those three blind mice
Those blind three mice
The Beatles used the sentence "See how they run" in two of its songs, "I am the Walrus" and "Lady Madonna".
Before major-league baseball required four umpires at every game, there were regularly three. The Brooklyn Dodgers had a fan band called the "Sym-Phoney Band," led by Shorty Laurice, which started playing "Three Blind Mice" when the umpires came out onto the field until the league office ordered the team to stop it.
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| References |
| External links |
See also
★ Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
References
1. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCM/is_2_30/ai_79743286
2. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2709823
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_Band
External links
★ Scholarly analysis
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