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Other variants include "down the mouse ran" [2] or "down the mouse run" [3] or "and down he ran" or "and down he run" in place of "the mouse ran down". Other variants have non-sequential numbers, for example starting with "The clock struck ten, The mouse ran down" instead of the traditional "one".
Origin unknown, lyrics from this song are mentioned as early as 1912. Hickory Dickory Dock 'Hickety Dickety Dock' Great Britain 1744 [41] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. The Hokey Cokey 'The Hokey Pokey' United Kingdom 1842 [42] Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain ...
The clock struck one, and down it come, Hickory, dickory, dock New meaning: The mouse in this version represents the computer input device and the clock represents time. Mindy Scott is currently writing The New Babel as a free e-book called “Suddenly in Sanity” on the MINDOLOGY LIVE web site (WWW.MINDOLOGY.US).
Ranging from movie soundtracks, theme songs, and even eerie radio hits, these 80 best Halloween songs of all time will help you make the perfect Halloween music playlist that's guaranteed to keep ...
The following are songs which deal directly with Halloween, or deal with related themes and have appeared on a widely released Halloween compilation album. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
In the 1830s, John Bellenden Ker noted that many English sayings and rhymes seem to be gibberish or nonsensical (e.g., "Hickory Dickory Dock"), but proposed that this was the case only because their original meanings have been forgotten.
Alex Lovy first introduced Hickory, Dickory, and Doc in the 1959 cartoon Space Mouse, in which Doc attempts to sell the mice to NASA as test animals. [1] Lovy's shorts mainly follow the contemporary cat-and-mouse chase formula of the time, with Doc usually failing to catch the more cunning Hickory and Dickory.
An outbreak of apparent kleptomania at a student hostel arouses Hercule Poirot's interest when he sees the bizarre list of stolen and vandalised items. These include a stethoscope, some lightbulbs, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, some boracic powder and a diamond ring later found in a bowl of soup – he congratulates the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a 'unique ...