Saturday 5 January 2008

Nursery Rhymes & Grimm's Tales

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Just the other day, my brother and I were trying to recall nursery rhymes that we learnt when we were in kindergarten. Listening to some of them were really funny, probably because we never gave much thought of what the words meant when we were younger. This particular one cracked my brother up:

Three Blind Mice

Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run!
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did ever you see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?


My brother was actually trying to recall another one on a mouse but he started with three blind mice and I continued it because he couldn't remember the verses. The one he had in mind was:

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory, dickory, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, dickory, dock.


That was fun, trying to recall nursery rhymes.

Nursery rhymes also remind me of this television series my siblings and I used to watch when we were really young. I know it's based on the Grimm's tales but cannot recall the name of the programme. I remmeber watching Rapunzel, Hansel & Gretel, and Jack and the Beanstalk. The narrator/host was a lady, whose name I do not know. I wish to watch it again (my brother says I'm experiencing my second childhood) but couldn't find it anywhere. Anybody knows the name of the programme, and where I can find it?
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