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Three Blind Mice

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ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 19 seconds aloud

Three mice run blind into a farmer's wife and don't come off well for it. It's one of the best-known rhymes in English purely for its tune and momentum, though the ending is sharper than the cheerful tone suggests.

From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.

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

Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition

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