Talk:Mary Had a Little Lamb

message: Removed vandalism from user Invertedchords. I forgot to add to my edit. Will (talk) 13:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note 

message: The book in the photo has totally different wording to the text quoted as the rhyme. The one in the photo is the one I know as the 'original', and is read as a poem, whereas the one in the text is sung. It would be helpful if the origination of the two different versions was explained; I believe the short one was written first but have no source for this.
--86.142.157.183 02:19, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have tried to address this in my edits. Robert K S 12:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics 

message: Can we get someone who doesn't sound like a total queer to recite the poem?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.89.186.144 (talk • contribs) 23:51, 7 July 2007
:The recital is perfectly fine--Lionelbrits 15:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recital voice 

message: The "Merrily We Roll Along" article says the melody was written in the 1840s for another song, but this article says the melody was adapted by Mason from Mozart. 68.161.162.165 (talk) 16:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, a puzzlement. They question is, what tune by Mozart? One thing is for sure, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Merrily We Roll Along" use the same tune. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 18:43, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

text: The last two notes of the first line are different?  Not in the version I always sang (and heard).  (To complicate things further, "Merrily We Roll Along" is given as the chorus of "Good Night Ladies" in the article on that song!)  Kostaki mou (talk) 22:42, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Melody -- contradiction 

message: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=1  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 (talk) 17:59, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: nice to read , but then , can it be told that the first really playable recording contained this verses ? edison tin foil recording , in my eyes an important trivia --Konfressor (talk) 09:43, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the earliest recording 

message: This is the correct tune of the song (skipping the intro of course). The media link posted is not the normal American version. I assume it's the British version. Softlavender (talk) 00:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Strange, the media version in the article sounds more like the version I have known in the US than the one you linked to. — al-Shimoni (talk) 21:44, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audio is incorrect 

message: Here's the rhyme's visualisation in Poem Viewer: an interactive tool from Oxford University that graphs the rhymes, consonance/assonance, and other properties of text. MartinPoulter Jisc (talk) 11:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested external link 

message: >"There are two competing theories on the origin of this poem.  One holds that Roulstone wrote the first four lines and that the final twelve lines, less childlike than the first, were composed by Sarah Josepha Hale; the other is that Hale was responsible for the entire poem."
If Hale wrote the rest of the poem, then how did she know about the first four verses?  Did Roulstone or Mary give them to Hale?  And if she wrote the whole thing, then how did she know that Mary took her lamb to school?  This is very confusing.  It would be good if someone who knows how all this came about could expand this section in the article. Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors  (talk) 23:42, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did Hale know about the lamb? 

message: someone added this onto the English page; I removed it because it's irrelevant
Korean version
떴다떴다 비행기 날아라 날아라
높이높이 날아라 우리 비행기
Korean romanization
Tteotda tteotda bihaenggi nalara nalara
nopinopi nalara oori bihaenggi
Human-potato hybrid (talk) 23:26, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Google Translate gives "Let's fly Let's fly Let's fly Let's fly Let's fly Let's fly"? Is this coded hate speech? Martinevans123 (talk) 23:28, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Korean version