MAIRZY DOATS by The Pied Pipers. A nonsense song that was just fun to sing. I listened to this when I was a kid and never really knew the words, sort of made up my owm. From a small group of early Capitol label 78s. Enjoy!
I asked my grandfather (92 years old) what his favorite song was and he said this one... So I played it for him and he sung every word. I asked him when the last time he heard it was and he told me high school. Apparently it's unforgettable! Just like Grandpa...
I used to sing this song to my beloved cat Smokey who passed away on Sept 12, 2014. He used to lay there and purr on and on when i would sing it to him. I know I sound like a crazy cat lady, but he was all I had with me during the week, as I am disabled and don't get out very often. The 14yrs I had with him were not long enough but I will always remember our song.
Hey Marie.., I am truly sorry for your loss.., & I have an idea how you feel, as I too lost my precious cat as well, on the 22nd of Sept. Unfortunately not everyone is able to experience that closeness with other creatures.., but some of us understand. Btw, I am certain there is another cat who needs a home, & needs you..! ~ Peace Btw, really cool tune..!!, had not heard it b4. I found it on "The Cell"...
I am sorry for the loss of your kitties, but I have 3 guineapigs that love this kindof music. Especially Duke, who loves to hear Maurine O'Hara say his name.
+Janet Streenz My mom used to sing this all the time.. She was born about 1920. If you got mad with her about something, she would infuriatingly sing the words "What is home with out your motherrrrrrrr" ... I have no clue what that was from or if she just made it up..
Wow, I am very envious of that! That means that you've witnessed all that beautiful music that came out over the course of the following 30 years. I would like to ask you about the first time the Beatles were mentioned in your world (see, I was born in 1991). People like you who were already grown before the British Invasion and the counterculture took place, you have no idea how much I envy that experience.
Janet Streenz my grandpa was born in the late 1920s and he would sing this song to my father and his siblings and then to me as a kid whenever he was over which was often because he sort of took my father's place since my father wasn't around when I was growing up. I can relate to this being nostalgic despite being from a different generation. The wonders of the internet! R.i.p. Bryan C. G. S.
This was the last song my mom laughingly sang to me before she got sick and passed away within 2 weeks. I have been looking for it but I didn’t know the name. While binge watching The Marvalous Mrs. Maisel, it came on! So happy to find it here!
This played at my grandmas funeral earlier this year. She used to sing it to my mum and her siblings to get them to sleep at night and they all had nicknames based on the song. I've had a few beers and I'm tearing up a bit.
I (born 1953) sing this song all the time to my 4 rescued dachshunds and my husband who is ten years younger than me. He laughs at me all the time about this song cuz he has never heard it and thinks I made it up. My mother (deceased), who danced and sang on the radio in 30's and 40's, sang this song to me and would tickle me at the end when it came to "wouldn't you". I now tickle either my husband or one of my dogs closest to me when I sing it. I heard this song in the movie "THE SAVAGES" August/2016 and never knowing where the song came from, looked it up and found this site. So glad to see so many nice messages/memories of nostalgia. Fondest memories forever and I can still hear mom singing this song as if she were here now. Thanks so much for posting this site on RU-vid. :-)
My grandmother Louise passed away today. This is a song she used to sing to my sister and I when we were little. Thank you for instilling the love for music in me, Granny. We'll miss you.
I'm only 32 and I grew up singing this song, my grandma was born in 1936 & was a music teacher & she tough me music from the 1700's all the way up to now a days... Thanks to my grandma the variety of music I know & like is vast, I gotta say my favorite song from the 40's is sentimental journey
This nonsense song made me feel so loved by grandpa who sang this to his little girl May❤❤❤my favorite memory that brings tears to my eyes when I hear it.
Yes, and that chewing gum you like is coming back in style... I want all my garminbozia! It was truly creepy for me to hear this in Twin Peaks, but that goes to show what a genius Lynch is... to take one of the least scary songs ever (I mean, Rock-a-bye Baby is WAY more sinister than this song) and make it shockingly terrifying... No blood, guts or gore necessary.
I remember my mom taught me this little ditty before I was in kindergarten. I can still see myself standing in the kitchen nagging her to sing it over and over again til I got the words right. I should have sung it to her a few times before she died to make her smile.
Some of us have thoughts of sweet things we could have done for our parents while they were still here and I pray we always keep those thoughts and maybe we will have another chance to so some of them one day
Grandma used to sing this all the time. I looked it up and found the story behind it. Fun! I'm 43 and my kids think I'm old and a dork. It is odd for me to hear the recorded version after hearing only grandma my entire life! Thanks!
I'm now 44 years old and my father sung that song alot when I was a kid I kinda thought it was a made up song all these years. It's funny hearing it on a record... and I always wasn't 100% sure about the lyrics... now I can't Stop singing it... it really rolls off the tongue...
I'd been trying to find this song for years. My Nanny used to sing bits of it to me as a child. For the life of me I thought it was a nursery rhyme until I just found this after singing the little bit that i could recall in a google search with microphone. I'm so happy I finally found this. She is in hospice now and I can play this for her. Still one of the happiest sounding songs I've ever listened to.
For as long as I will love this will be the song that reminds me of my Gram. She used to sing it with us in the car when we were going to her house for a sleepover. She passed away last night. I love you Gram.
My grandma used to sing this song to me before i went to bed every night. She passed away recently and listening to this brought back a lot of happy memories
I recorded this song in Bobby's of Bournemouth in 1946. I was six. They had a recording studio upstairs and my mother paid five shillings. On the other side of the record I recited "Someome" by Walter de la Mare. I had that record for many years.
All my children have been given their own special song from children's songs. Twinkle twinkle little star, you are my sunshine, the wheels on the bus, working on the railroad, row your boat, My newest gem still needs her song. In rememberance of my step dad who passed away last month and sang me this song when I was little I will be singing it to my daughter now. Thank you for posting it so i can relearn the lyrics.
This is one of the songs my memere would sing to me and my brother to get us to sleep during sleepovers. She’d rub our backs and sing this and other tunes and it’s always been my favorite memories to look back on. Now I’m 24 and I sing this to my son to help him sleep at night. ❤❤
I remember my grandmother singing this song to me when I was a teenager and I teased her about it being a silly song, but I loved that she sang it. I was just thinking of her and found this song, so thank you.
Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. This song isn't gibberish, it's a demonstration of a lingual phenomenon. As someone with an auditory processing disorder, I've been using this song for years to explain to people what it's like.
+Michael That's just the way things are these days, we use the Internet to find these fragments, and piece them together to form a shared cultural experience. Some grad student should write a paper or something...
My grandpa used to sing this song to me when I was a little girl. I never knew where he learned it. I rediscovered it when looking for songs from the 40's to play for my elderly neighbor on the ukulele.
My grandfather was a typhoon pilot that got shot down over Nazi occupied France on D-Day+2. He was a badass and escaped capture from the SS, but when he returned to allied lines, they were suspicious he might be a spy, so they made him sing this song to convince them he was an Englishman.
Dad interrogated the SS. He was Omaha Beach 2nd wave. What a great story. I am glad since am a younger WWII veteran's kid I know the history as well as some of the music. Times were rough and stressed. The music was spirited at times and people who grew up with rock & roll sometimes forget this was the kind of music our parents knew. I had a little of both worlds as listened to classical and big band music in house while kids blasted 60s and 70s rock next door. Lol
First heard this at age 4 or 5, so I figured it was the Doats Family: Mairzy (mother), Doezy (father) and little Lambziedivy (daughter). What a pleasure to hear The Pied Pipers sing it!
my grandmother sometimes would sing this song, and she would say it was a silly song from when she was young. I have never heard the actual recording before. Thanks for adding this to youtube.
Maybe the 9 people who gave this thing 'thumbs down' are actually the 9 surviving relatives of the Pied Pipers who might feel that they are entitled to some sort of royalties? Who can know? Not me...
Yes! Thank you :) ! The song: “Mairzy Doats” The song's refrain, as written on the sheet music, seems meaningless: 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."This hint allows the ear to translate the final line as "a kid'll eat ivy, too; wouldn't you?" Pedagogical Genius Within Music -The song above teaches the listener/student the nutritional habits of farm animals. But you must know about mares, does, kids and lambs in order to fully appreciate the artistic genius within the piece. It also contains lessons in grammer and wrting using contractions, possivie pronouns, etc... Music is Science
I work in a haunted house and the young girls who died there absolutely love this song. They even sing it to the 2 year old that lives there now, and she has started singing it, even though she can't talk very well.
Nostalgia. All I remembered to google was "little lambs eat ivy." But it worked. The lyrics do come back though, I'm surprised I knew every word and intonation singing along.
I was born in 1958. Seem like I heard it on the radio, but I recall Mom singing it to me at bedtime along with a story she'd read to me. Too bad the best things have not carried on through the generations. I sang Inch Worm to my sons.
This made me cry, tears of joy though. My grandpa used to sing this to me. I miss him so much. Thank you so much for putting this up on RU-vid I'm so grateful.
My dad, who was born a few years before this song came out, grew up with. He would sing it to me every time we went hunting, or fishing, or whatever. Can you picture it: 1970s some guy with his teen son singing this song, be-bopping down the road in a 1965 GMC pickup heading toward a fishing hole. Great memories.
If I had had the internet as a kid I would have never left it. I love this old song. It popped in my head a few minutes ago so I looked it up and listened to it. Thanks for posting it!
I've just experienced a wave of emotion wash over me, and it left me with a wholesome feeling I haven't felt in a long, long time. Time to start revisiting these lost memories. Time is precious and short.
My dad told for me to look it up which his dad forced him to listen to. I will do the same to my kids. This song is so great. In today's world with all the sadness and stress it's nice to take a break from it all. :)
I didnt know this was an actual song. I first heard it in early 80's from a friend at college, and heard it on an episode of M*A*S*H ( something like mairzy doats and dozy doats........and I'll be home for Christmas)never knew the whole lyrics, I just found them on Google and now RU-vid. Cute song
Who the hell votes down something like this. WTF could you possibly be expecting ?? Heard this on satellite radio and came here to download and I knew youtube would come through. Awesome age that we live in that this is even possible
A lot of people referenced Twin Peaks but - unless I overlooked it - nobody mentioned 'The Cell'. A very underrated movie and one of Vincent D'Onofrio's best performances. It's one of those movies whose imagery stays with u long after the credits roll.
Remember an Aunt who sung this off and on when I was visiting her - I loved it and it was a while before I caught on to what the words really were - she passed away several years ago at the age of 101.....sweet memories!!!!
Just finished reading a book about Coast Guard landing craft during the 2nd world war and this song was mentioned towards the end of the book entitled LUCKY THIRTEEN written by the coxswain of one of those little 36 foot Chris Craft landing craft LCCV which could carry maybe 30 troops and a jeep. The author went home on leave in 1944 and everybody was singing this song and listening to it on the radio constantly.
Mare's eat oats and Doe's eat oats and Little Lambs eat Ivy, a Kidd'll eat Ivy too, wouldn't you? or Mairzy Doats and Dosey Doats and liddle amzy divey a kiddly divey too wooden shoe.
Popped into my head (and out of my mouth) in the shower this morning. A memory of childhood. Went searching to find out the origin, and thanks to this video, now I know.
I was born in 1941. My mom used to make sandwiches for lunch and feed me at the kitchen table, While she was doing that, she often sang this song to me, even if we were listening to Kaltenborn's news.
Same here. I always pictured a father goat and a mother goat with a child goat and a baby goat... Maresey Doats, Doesey Doats, Lilttle Lamseydivey and then the baby Kiddleydivey. :) Ah, the innocence of youth. I would have those times again!
Messing around with silly and fun songs I happened on a comment that led me here. My grandmother passed away last year. She used to always sing this song but I had not heard it myself. As the notes played, I heard my grandmother singing instead of the pipers.
