Words That Rhyme With Blinding

1805 traditional vocal

"Three Blind Mice"
Sail music
Nursery rhyme
Published	c. 1609
Songwriter(southward)	Thomas Ravenscroft

"Iii Blind Mice" is an English language-linguistic communication nursery rhyme and musical round.^[1] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753.

Lyrics [edit]

The modernistic words are:

Melody for "Three Blind Mice".

"Three Blind Mice" round.

Three blind mice. Three blind mice.

See how they run. See how they run.

They all ran after the farmer'southward wife,

Who cutting off their tails with a etching pocketknife,

Did you ever come across such a sight in your life,

Equally three blind mice?^[ii]

Origins and pregnant [edit]

A version of this rhyme, together with music (in a pocket-size fundamental), was published in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (1609).^[3] The editor of the book, and possible writer of the rhyme,^[4] was Thomas Ravenscroft.^[1] The original lyrics are:

Three Blinde Mice,

3 Blinde Mice,

Dame Iulian,

Dame Iulian,

the Miller and his merry olde Wife,

shee scrapte her tripe licke thou the knife.^[1]

Attempts to read historical significance into the words^[ii] accept led to the speculation that this musical round was written earlier and refers to Queen Mary I of England blinding and executing three Protestant bishops.^[5] Notwithstanding, the Oxford Martyrs, Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer, were burned at the stake, not blinded; although if the rhyme was made past crypto-Catholics, the mice's "blindness" could refer to their Protestantism.^[ii] However, every bit tin can be seen above, the earliest lyrics don't talk about harming the three blind mice, and the outset known date of publication is 1609, well afterward Queen Mary died.

The rhyme but entered children'due south literature in 1842 when information technology was published in a collection past James Orchard Halliwell.^{[ citation needed ]}

Variations [edit]

Amateur music composer Thomas Oliphant (1799–1873)^[6] noted in 1843 that:

This cool old round is frequently brought to mind in the present day, from the circumstance of there beingness an instrumental Quartet by Weiss, through which runs a musical phrase accidentally the aforementioned as the notes applied to the word Three Blind Mice. They form a third descending, C, B, A.^[7]

Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana #7, which is arguably about a cat (Murr), appears to exist based upon "Three Blind Mice", simply in a predominantly minor key. "Three Blind Mice" is to be found in the fugue which is the centerpiece of #7.^{[ citation needed ]}

Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958) composed his Symphonic Variations, opus 37, based on Three Blind Mice. Too, Joseph Haydn used its theme in the Finale (4th Mvt) of his Symphony 83 (La Poule) (1785–86); i of the six Paris Symphonies, and the music too appears in the final movement of English composer Eric Coates' suite The Three Men. "Three Bullheaded Mice" was as well used equally a theme song for The Iii Stooges and a Curtis Fuller organization of the rhyme is featured on the Art Blakey live album of the same name. The song is as well the basis for Leroy Anderson'southward 1947 orchestral "Dabble Faddle".

The theme can too be heard in Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 Four. Allegro con fuoco.^[8]

The British composer Havergal Brian (1876–1972) used the melody every bit the basis of his orchestral piece of work "Fantastic Variations on an Erstwhile Rhyme" (1907–08). The piece of work was originally intended as the first motility of a satirical "Fantastic Symphony" (Symphony No.1), a programmatic piece of work, based on the nursery rhyme. The 2nd motility was intended as a scherzo for pizzicato strings, depicting the souls of the departed mice going to sky and the tertiary move was a Complaining for the dead mice. Both these movements are lost. "Festal Dance" (1908) formed the finale, depicting the wild dance of triumph of the farmer's wife in which passing references to the tune tin can be heard. Having been performed separately, the commencement and concluding movements became independent works around 1914.^[ix]

The theme of the 2nd movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Pianoforte Concerto No. 4 (1926, revised 1928 and 1941) was criticized as resembling Iii Blind Mice.^[x]

A calypso version of the tune with new lyrics past Monty Norman was recorded by Byron Lee and the Dragonaires for the film Dr. No, and is featured in its soundtrack as part of the track "Kingston Calypso".^[xi] The reworked rhyme alludes to the three blackness assassins whose deadly march through the streets of Kingston, Jamaica opens the film. Other Jamaican versions include dancehall artists, similar Josey Wales and Brigadier Jerry.

In a 78 RPM CD of The Whale who Wanted to Sing at the Met, Nelson Boil, sang a round of the song before the actual brusque performance.

The line "See how they run" appears in The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" (1968) and Redeye's "Games" (1970–1971).

In 1969, a version of the rhyme, with slightly inverse lyrics and in D minor rather than in a major key, was recorded by Mike Oldfield equally part of the duo The Sallyangie, with his older sis Emerge, within the song "Chameleon" on the duo'southward only album, Children of the Lord's day. In the vocal, Oldfield sings the rhyme (among other lyrics) as a lower counterpoint song to his sister, who sings completely different lyrics on a different, slower tune, in a high voice.^{[ citation needed ]} Also in the same year, Sesame Street adapted the song to "B is for Bubble".^[12]

Canadian vocalizer-songwriter Raffi and Canadian female musical creative person Lindsay Monroe sing this song on their 2022 anthology: "Nursery Rhymes for Kinder Times" as "Three Kind Mice".

"Complete version" [edit]

Published in 1904 past Frederick Warne & Co., an illustrated children'south book by John W. Ivimey entitled The Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice, fleshes the mice out into mischievous characters who seek adventure, eventually existence taken in by a farmer whose married woman chases them from the firm and into a bramble bush, which blinds them.^[13]

Soon subsequently, their tails are removed past "the butcher's wife" when the complete version incorporates the original poetry—although the earliest version from 1609 does non mention tails being cut off. The story ends with them using a tonic to abound new tails and recover their eyesight, learning a trade (making wood chips, according to the accompanying illustration), ownership a house and living happily ever after.

The book is now in the public domain.^[fourteen] ^[fifteen]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford: Oxford University Printing, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 306.
^ ^a ^b ^c Due west. S. Baring-Gould and C. Baring-Gould, The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New (Bramhall Business firm, 1962), p. 156.
^ ^a ^b Thomas Ravenscroft., Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie, or melodius Musicke. Of Pleasant Roundalaies; Printed for Thomas Adams (1609). "Rounds or Catches of 3 Voices, #13" (Online version)
^ Christopher Baker, Absolutism and the scientific revolution, 1600–1720: a biographical dictionary, "Ravenscroft, Thomas (c. 1590–c. 1623)", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-30827-seven, 450 pp. (p. 319)
^ Consort past Albert Jack, Pop Goes the Weasel: The Hole-and-corner Meanings of Nursery Rhymes, Allen Lane (2008). ISBN 978-one-84614-144-7.^{[ folio needed ]}
^ Papers of the Manchester Literary Club by Manchester Literary Club, Published by H. Rawson & Co., 1890
^ La musa madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays, Etc., Importantly of the Elizabethan Historic period; with Remarks and Annotations. By Thomas Oliphant, Published by Calkin and Budd, 1837
^ Listening to Music Creatively by Edwin Stringham, Published by Prentice-Hall, 1959
^ "A fantastic symphony".
^ Greenfield, Edward (1988). The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music. Penguin Books. ISBN0-14-046829-3.
^ Monty Norman - The first man of James Bond music
^ Sesame Street: B is for Chimera - YouTube
^ Complete Version of Ye 3 Blind Mice Hardcover – 1900. Amazon. FREDERICK WARNE & CO/PENGUIN. January 1900. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
^ Complete version of ye three bullheaded mice ([1909]) at the Internet Archive
^ Complete Version of ye Three Blind Mice past John Westward. Ivimey at Project Gutenberg