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23 Dec 96 - 12:57 PM (#860) Subject: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Susan.Stedman@noaa.com I remember a song from my childhood about 3 little fishes but I can't recall the third verse. The first two are:
Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool |
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23 Dec 96 - 01:26 PM (#861) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Bob Schwarer phidea@cris.com Here are the last verses as I hear them: Whee yelled the fishes, oh here's a lot of fun. Swim in the sea 'til the day is done So they swam and they swam, it was all, a lark. 'til all of a sudden they saw a shark. Whoa(?) cried the fishes, oh look at the whales Quick as they could they turned on their tails Back to the pool in the meadow they swam And swam and swam back over the dam. Merry Christmas HO HO HO Bob S. |
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23 Dec 96 - 04:58 PM (#863) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Susan.Stedman@noaa.com Bob - Thanks SO MUCH! The best part of this song is the chorus: Boop boop diddle daddum whattum choo! and now I can sing it two more times. Merry Christmas to you too. Susan-Marie |
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26 Dec 96 - 02:51 PM (#892) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Sue Wichers It's written by Saxie Dowell, 1939 and is The New Novelty Songbook. |
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26 Dec 96 - 09:29 PM (#900) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: dick greenhaus Hi- thanx. The Andrews Sisters did this to death, but that was more than 50 years ago, and I guess it's time for a resurrection |
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19 Jan 97 - 12:05 PM (#1449) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Bob Schwarer My recording is by Kay Kyser Bob S. |
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20 Jan 97 - 05:43 PM (#1499) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Jerry Friedman, jfriedman@nnm.cc.nm.us I think the lyrics were originally written in baby talk. "An dey fam and dey fam all over de dam! |
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21 Feb 97 - 08:32 PM (#2452) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: TJMcShane@aol.com This Tune Was recorded by Spike Jones and His City Slickers and the recording is available on CD, His Trumpet player sang the song and he also sang ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH. |
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08 Apr 97 - 06:47 PM (#4015) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Ralph Butts Re-upping this one in response to new request |
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28 Oct 97 - 12:59 AM (#15372) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Try:
http://www.vhf.com/~kennyb/lyrics.htm#C
And look under Children's Songs/Kid's Songs - Lullabies |
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13 Sep 01 - 08:48 PM (#549482) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca I noticed that in the DT, the author and date information isn't there. See the message above DT Version |
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13 Sep 01 - 09:30 PM (#549515) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: GutBucketeer Does anyone have the chords to this too? JAB |
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13 Sep 01 - 10:12 PM (#549549) Subject: Lyr Add: THREE LITTLE FISHIES (Saxie Dowell) From: Genie Here are they lyrics as sung by Kay Kyser [Kayser?], whose band popularized the song in the mid 1930's [and who may have written it]. BTW, this song, like "Doggie In The Window," and some other "kids' songs" was not originally a children's song, but a song popular with the teenagers and young adults.
THREE LITTLE FISHIES
Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool,
cho: Boop boop dittum dattum wattum, shoo
"Stop!" said the mama fishy, "You'll get lost!"
"Whee!" said the little fishies, "This is fun! Kayser, of course, then repeats the whole song in baby talk, e.g.:
Down in da meadow in a itty bitty poo,
He also does not sing the same chorus twice. Each chorus is a different set of nonsense syllables, until, on the last one, it is only a lot of silly sound effects that most of us can't readily do.
Maybe someone has a link to a recording. I got it from a tape at the library.
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13 Sep 01 - 10:18 PM (#549559) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Genie Two mistakes I caught. In the chorus, it's "...right out to the sea," not "...all out to the sea." [Maybe In the third verse, it should be " ...day is done!" Genie P.S., Joe O., I know you don't like duplicate postings, but the one you have in the DT seems to have strayed quite a bit from the original lyrics (thought the story is intact), and there was a request for chords, so I thought I'd post both here. |
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13 Sep 01 - 10:24 PM (#549566) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Genie, Sue Wichers posted the author of the song and year it came out in. |
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14 Sep 01 - 12:29 AM (#549680) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: GUEST,Genie George, I've no doubt that the posting has the author right, but are you sure it was not originally published before 1939? I could have sworn that the Kay Kyser recording I heard was about 1937. [I was wrong once before, though.] As for the lyrics, the ones in the DT were not the same as on the Kay Kyser tape, so I posted those. I don't know which ones, if either, are the original.] G |
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14 Sep 01 - 01:20 AM (#549704) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: GutBucketeer Thanks Genie! Actually Kay Keyser didn't do the singing. It was one of his horn players that came down and did Novelty tunes from time to time. He went by the name of Ish KaBibble. Kay Keyser made it a hit in 1941. JAB- |
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14 Sep 01 - 01:23 AM (#549707) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Actually, Kay Kyser's hit with Three Little Fishes was in 1939/ I don't know yet, (Haven't compared the lyrics) what the differences in the lyrics are but have a look: Three Little Fishes |
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14 Sep 01 - 07:40 AM (#549848) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Greyeyes See also this thread |
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18 Sep 01 - 05:01 AM (#553030) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: GUEST,Genie Ah, yes, GutBucketeer, I remember Ish Kabibble! George, t'anks for da links! Genie |
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18 Sep 01 - 09:56 AM (#553148) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: GUEST,Phillip What did the fish say when he bumped his head on a concrete wall? Dam!! |
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23 May 05 - 02:04 PM (#1491429) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: GUEST,judith_veith@yahoo.co.uk I am a Yr 1 teacher and want to use the song Three Little Fishes for my class assembly. I have the lyrics but need either the music score or an audio of the song. Could you please help me. Judie Veith |
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23 May 05 - 08:08 PM (#1491664) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Compton We Brits know the Frankie Howard Version which is much the same! |
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23 May 05 - 08:18 PM (#1491665) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker some time ago, i downloaded from somewhere what i beleive to be an Andrews Sisters 1960's re-recording in really cool beat-group style.. i'd sure like to find that version on CD somewhere.. Btw.. this has always been one of my favourite songs |
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24 May 05 - 12:17 PM (#1492035) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: clueless don I heard a slightly different version, which I like better, of the second verse. My wife heard it sung on TV by Madonna: "Swim," said the mama fish "but don't you get lost" but the three little fishies didn't want to be bossed. Three little fishies going out on a spree and they swam, and they swam, right out to the sea. I'm very pleased to have the last two verses, which I had never heard before. Don |
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24 May 05 - 02:07 PM (#1492126) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Q (Frank Staplin) Kididdles lists sheet music and songbooks at: Three Little Fishes Also Disney Silly Songs cd (scroll down) The song is under copyright, and thus is not available as lyrics or midi at Kididdles. |
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25 May 05 - 11:20 PM (#1493380) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Jim Dixon Here's the index entry from Indiana University Sheet Music Collections. Who would have guessed how the first line was spelled? Title: THREE LITTLE FISHIES Title: Itty bitty poo Composer: Dowell, Saxie Name: Hal Kemp Role: P Publisher: Santly-Joy-Select Inc. Place of publication: New York Date of publication: 1939 Call Number: M1 .D48 Box: 086 Item: 081 Performance Medium: Piano, Voice and Chords First Line: Down in de meddy in a itty bitty poo, fam fee itty fitty A few more lines copied from http://shadowstar.ymakadomain.com/bards/unknown.htm: Down in de meddy in a itty bitty poo, Fam fee itty fitty and a mama fitty, foo. "Fim," fed de mama fitty, "fim if oo tan," And dey fam and dey fam all over de dam. Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! And dey fam all over de dam. |
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26 May 05 - 11:11 AM (#1493629) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: semi-submersible How in the Hey did you locate that last version? I find it hard to imagine a search phrase that would turn it up! |
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26 May 05 - 07:57 PM (#1493967) Subject: RE: lyrics req: 3 little fishes From: Jim Dixon I knew the composer's name was Dowell so I searched for Dowell, using the search function at the Indiana University web site. That gave me the first line; then I used that with Google to find the second quote. |
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23 Jan 07 - 10:09 PM (#1946179) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three Little Fishies From: GUEST,freddiec Hello, I am looking for the version in "swingaroo" that was a pop slang in the 40's the group sounded like the Modernairs the Miller group. It's really cool lets find it! |
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23 Jan 07 - 10:12 PM (#1946183) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three Little Fishies From: SINSULL GUEST, Philip - he said "I have high hopes..." |
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24 Jan 07 - 08:22 AM (#1946500) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three Little Fishies From: GUEST,Bob Coltman All honor to Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge (which I remember hearing on radio in the 40s), but he was just messin' around with something a lot older. If you search "Over In the Meadow" in the DT, you'll find the original of this, Olive A. Wadsworth's 19th century poem. With the addition of a pretty tune, it entered tradition quickly, probably by 1900 at the latest, became part of the folk roots, and has been printed in many folksong collections dating back into the 1930s. In 1955 I recorded the North Carolina singer Maud Long singing it as she had learned it from her mother, the famed Jane Gentry, around the turn of the century or so. Bob |
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30 Jan 08 - 01:52 AM (#2248397) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three Little Fishies From: GUEST,Richard Dowell Garrison The writer of the three little fishies song was my mother's first cousin. |
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15 Jan 09 - 10:51 PM (#2540993) Subject: Three Little Fishies From: GUEST,mike They also have a Wiggles rendition for kids, except it involves more animals than just fish. You can check it on YouTube. Not bad for that "demographic" :) Really catchy tune! |
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01 Aug 09 - 08:29 PM (#2691925) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Three Little Fishies From: Genie Does anyone have the earlier lyrics (the more "trad" version)? |
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17 Dec 10 - 09:31 PM (#3056072) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 3 Little Fishes? / Three Little Fishies From: GUEST,GUEST: Cece DATE: December 17, 2010 For loads of information about "Three Little Fishies" Songs, lyrics, chords....Try Google Search and type in Three Little Fishes-Sheet music...You will get a wealth of good information. |
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23 Jun 11 - 01:28 PM (#3175275) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 3 Little Fishes? / Three Little Fishies From: GUEST,Kathleen Sisson My father Gregory Doyle Smith told me that he was double-dating during a Chicago winter storm in the late 30's. It was so cold and snowy that the four of them didn't want to get out of the car. They sat in the car and composed "Three Little Fishies" in baby talk. They sat there quite a while composing and memorizing it. He knew all the original lyrics and enthusiastically explained how they came up with the ideas. They were all excited when they went into the bar and told everyone they had a new song. Pretty soon everyone in the bar was singing it and within a few weeks, it went natonwide and worldwide. It was sung by dozens of other singers. He is dead now but was well-known in Tacoma, WA for being a very honest man in all his dealings. The 4 composers never got credit or compensation for their original work of art, so I want to give credit here. I don't know the names of the other composers. |
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31 Jan 17 - 09:39 PM (#3836026) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 3 Little Fishes? / Three Little Fishies From: GUEST,GUEST: Donna Would you believe, I lived in Hamilton, Ohio when I was young and this song came out on a record which we came on the back side of a cereal box! We cut it from the box and played it in our record player. This was some time in the early 1950's! |