Three Blind Mice (round)
The nursery round in four parts, as a Boston songbook of 1906 printed it, for 2 to 4 singers: everyone sings the same tune twice, entering four bars apart (tenor and bass an octave lower), and the parts tumble over each other. The words are the 1906 ones.
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The first verse
Words: traditionalTune: traditional, as printed in Home Songs (Oliver Ditson, 1906)
Three blind mice,Three blind mice,
About Three Blind Mice (round)
Three Blind Mice is the nursery round almost everyone knows. In 1886 a reader of Notes and Queries called it "the school round" and quoted the words in all the printed copies he had met, "They all ran after the farmer's wife". Our round is read from Home Songs, a Boston book of 1906 of songs, hymns and rounds, which prints it in four parts, with its words "She cut off their tails" and "Did ever you see such a sight", a whole tone lower, in C. Here it is for 2 to 4 singers: everyone sings it twice, entering four bars apart, with the tenor and bass an octave lower, and the parts tumble over each other.
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