Three blind mice, see how they run!

They all ran after the farmer's wife, 

Who cut off their tails with the carving-knife,

Did you ever see such fools in your life? 

      Three blind mice. 

Halliwell, James Orchard, Comp. Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1853, p. 44. No. CLXXII

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 fools in your life? 

   Three blind mice.

Old Nurse's Book: Of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties. Ed. and Illus. by Charles H. Bennett. London, England: Griffith and Farran, 1857. [Facsimile edition reproduced from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. Toronto Public Library by Holp Shuppan, Publishers, Tokyo 1981.] p. 49.

Three blind mice! See, how they run!

They all ran after the farmer's wife, 

Who cut off their tails with the carving-knife!

Did you ever see such a thing in your life? 

   Three blind mice!

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, p. 142. No. LXXXI in Nursery Jingles Section

THREE  blind mice, see how they run!

   They all ran after the farmer's wife, 

Who cut off their tails with the carving-knife;

Did you ever see such fools in your life? 

      Three blind mice.

Lang, Andrew, Ed. The Nursery Rhyme Book. Illus. by L. Leslie Brooke. London, England: Frederick Warne and Co., 1897, p.105.

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? 

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p.306. No. 348

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 sight in your life, 

   As three blind mice? 

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 156. No. 253