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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." [4] This hint allows the ear to translate the final line as "a kid'll eat ivy, too; wouldn't you?" [5]
The clue to the meaning is contained in the bridge of the song: 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." That makes it clear that the last line is "A kid'll eat ivy, too; wouldn't you?" [72]
The 'history' section does not adequately address the origins of the main saying "mares eat oats...", it makes mention that it is from an older nursery rhyme then focuses exclusively on the song from the '40s. This should be clarified and rewritten. The song is a specific extrapolation based upon the original version.
Solfège, or solfa, is a technique for teaching sight-singing, in which each note is sung to a special syllable (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti).; Canntaireachd is an ancient Scottish practice of noting music with a combination of definite syllables for ease of recollection and transmission.
The construction of rhyming slang involves replacing a common word with a phrase of two or more words, the last of which rhymes with the original word; then, in almost all cases, omitting, from the end of the phrase, the secondary rhyming word (which is thereafter implied), [7] [page needed] [8] [page needed] making the origin and meaning of ...
Rather than wrestling Diomedes alone Heracles entrusts the mares to a young boy named Abderos. While Heracles and his men defeat Diomedes and his Bistone army, young Abderos is unable to control the mares and is killed in the process. Heracles, grieved by the fate of Abderos, builds a city named Abdera in his name. Other versions also may ...
Among their many nutritional components, oats contain soluble fibers made up of beta glucans, complex carbohydrates that play a major role in the digestive process of oats. Thinking about beta ...
The lyrics consist of a sequence of similar verses, each consisting of seven lines, with one mutable element: while the first, third and fourth lines are the same in each verse, they change with each following verse. In these lines, the words on the last two beats are repeated in the first and third lines, but not in the fourth line.