A 1943 popular song.
Words and music by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I know a ditty nutty as a fruit cake
Goofy as a goon and silly as a loon
Some call it pretty others call it crazy
But they all sing this tune
Chorus:
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you? Yes
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
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” Oh!
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you-oo?
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
Sung here by Vancha March: