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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:09:33 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
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Healthy goats and sheep will eat it voluntarily, given a chance, in my
experience. And they've stayed healthy ...

I thought mares eat oats and goats eat oats and _little lambs_ eat
ivy!

A kid'll eat ivy too.

Kids are baby goats, but I bet you knew that.

I did. I've eaten plenty.

The first line is "Mares
eat oats and does eat oats", btw.

I knew that too, I used to sing it in the 1940s. I didn't write the lines
cited above.

Mary

:-)

Janet

I thought it was mo

Marezy Dotes and Dozy Dotes and Liddle Lambzy Divy
A kiddley divy doo, wouldn't you.

In truth, that's what I used to sing in the 1940s. When I grew older my
mother explained the facts of life ...

Mary



- I found the song sheet for it while going through some of my mother's
stuff a few months back.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

|
| I understand that 'poison ivy' is an American plant and unrelated to
our
| hedera.

It is. It is not even in the same family. It is a sumach, most
of which have poisonous sap.

Oh, thanks Nick. I'll try to remember that!

Mary


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Kids are baby goats, but I bet you knew that. The first line is "Mares
eat oats and does eat oats", btw.

What *IS* that part of?

First time I heard it I shook mt head in disbelief:

"Mersey totes and dozy totes and little Lambsie-tivy..."

Related to "Yan, tan, tetherer?" I thunked.

A silly popular song of the 30's or 40's

and 50's.

Yan tan tetherer was a counting system used by shepherds iirc.

Janet

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Yan tan tetherer was a counting system used by shepherds iirc.

Still is, and comes from the Old Norse. [5]

--
Rusty Hinge
horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

[5] Not an old horse.