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"Mairzy Doats" is a novelty song composed in 1943, by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. It was first played on radio station WOR, New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. The song made the pop charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1 in March 1944. The song's refrain, as written on the sheet music, seems meaningless: :''Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey'' :''A kiddley divey too, Wooden shoe!" 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."'' This hint allows the ear to translate the final line as "() kid'll eat ivy, too, wouldn't you?" ==History== One of the writers, Milton Drake, said the song was based on an English nursery rhyme. According to this story, Drake's four-year-old daughter came home singing, "Cowzy tweet and sowzy tweet and liddle sharksy doisters." (Cows eat wheat and sows eat wheat and little sharks eat oysters.) Drake joined Hoffman and Livingston to come up with a tune for the new version of the rhyme, but for a year no one was willing to publish a "silly song." Finally, Hoffman pitched it to his friend Al Trace, bandleader of the Silly Symphonists. Trace liked the song and recorded it. It became a huge hit, most notably with the Merry Macs' 1944 recording. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mairzy Doats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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