An old friend of mine who has now passed, came from Liverpool. He spoke of a ditty that they sung as children whilst skipping.........He wrote it down as 'Ramsey totes and dozey totes and little lamsey tivey', which is what he beieved it to be into his forties. In discussion then about the old days, the truth came ou that it should be 'Rams eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy'