"Mairzy Doats"

       Connie and I were musing in bed last night about a "nonsense" song from our childhood:

                Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
                A kiddley-divey too, wouldn't you?
                     
       It had a pleasant nursery-rhymish tune along with the silly words.  Something must have clicked back then, and we each got the delight of the language:

               Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy
               A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?

       Wikipedia says that it was a 1943 novelty song by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston.