This was the name of a novelty song put out in the mid 1940s: <\/p>\n
Mairzy dotes and dozey dotes<\/a>, and liddle lamzey divey; This was the name of a novelty song put out in the mid 1940s: Mairzy dotes and dozey dotes, and liddle lamzey divey; A kiddle edivey two, wooden shoe! (Repeat) If the words sound queer, and funny to your ear, A little bit jumbled and jivey. Sing mares eat oats, and does eat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-favoritethings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A kiddle edivey two, wooden shoe! (Repeat)
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!
Oh, mairzy dotes and dozey dotes, and liddle lamsey divey;
A kiddleedivey two, wouldn\u2019t you? Wouldn\u2019t you!
It\u2019s a mondegreen<\/a>, see? The way we learn songs is often a little jumbled, and this song played on that tendency. We didn\u2019t have a name for it when I was a kid in the 1940s, but songwriters played with it before there was a name! What phenomena are themes for play in songs today that have not yet been recognized with a word?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"