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[339] Patrick McNamara

from: Canada

 

3 Monkeys Collector: general collector of monkeys and apes, which includes the three monkeys.

 

 

Saturday, January 08, 2011 at 15:56h       

 

 

Hello.

I'm a general collector of monkeys and apes, which includes the three monkeys.

I've been trying to track down an old song I heard as a child on what I believe was a children's record. It would likely have been produced some time during the 60s, maybe 50s or early 70s. I can't recall the title specifically nor who recorded it. But I have been able to remember most of the lyrics and can hear the song in my head.

I know there's an abundance of unknown or forgotten children's records so trying to track the actual record would be nearly impossible. But I listened to it so many times that I memorized the lyrics. I can't say if I remember them exactly but I'm fairly certain that I'm accurate on most of them.

I've already looked through the list you have on the site and couldn't find anything even similar. I don't expect you would recognize it but you seem to be the best chance.

Here are the lyrics:

(The ? are where I'm uncertain about the line.)

 

CHORUS:

Three wise monkeys sitting on the shelf,

sitting and sitting all day.

"Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil,"

that's all they say.

 

The first little monkey takes his hands (?)

and covers his ears so tight.

If he doesn't hear anything wrong

he'll hear everything that's right.

 

CHORUS

 

The second little monkey takes his hands (?)

and covers his eyes so tight.

If he doesn't see anything wrong

he'll see everything that's right.

 

CHORUS

 

The third little monkey takes his hands (?)

and covers his mouth so tight.

If he doesn't say anything wrong

he'll say everything that's right.

 

CHORUS

 

The three little monkeys hold their hands

over their eyes, mouth and ears so tight

If we never do anything wrong

we'll do every thing that's right.

 

CHORUS (?)

 

[338] Herb

from: USA

 

3 Monkeys Collector?: yes

 

Friday, January 07, 2011 at 18:58h       

 

 

Do not know why the monkeys intrigue me so much, but they do. Thank you for your site and all the history and philosophy.

 

[337] Miet Hermans

from: Belgïe

 

HZZ verzamelaar?: ja

 

Sunday, January 02, 2011 at 20:27h       

 

 

 

Het helpt niet om uw kop weg te stoppen, dus kop omhoog en kijk uit naar een geweldig 2011!!!

Vanwege Miet en Paul

[336] Antonia

from: France

 

3 Monkeys Collector?: yes

 

Saturday, January 01, 2011 at 18:01h       

 

 

Thanks for your new year wishes Emil.

I hope 2011 will be a great year for you and all the three-monkeys friends. I wish everybody happiness, good health and... wisdom.

Antonia

 

[335] Yvelyne Auzou

from: France

 

3 Monkeys Collector?: yes

 

Friday, December 31, 2010 at 12:36 pm       

 

 

Je souhaite à toutes et à tous de très bonnes fêtes de fin d'année et une bonne année 2011 faite de tout ce que vous pouvez espérer, puisque, ne dit-on pas, que l'espoir fait vivre !! 

Yvelyne Auzou

Webmasters comment:

We received a greeting card from Yvelyne by regular mail too. Here below is a copy of the postal stamps on the envelope.

 

[334] Emil Schuttenhelm

from: Switzerland

 

3 Monkeys Collector?: yes

 

Friday, December 31, 2010 at 11:59 pm       

 

                                           

 

 

Happy New Year to you all and thank you very much for being part of our special three-monkey collector’s community.

 

We wish you and yours a prosperous and healthy New Year with many new and exciting additions to your “No Evils” collections.

 

A special “thank you” to Yvelyne, Bruce and Winfried for their continuous linguistic assistance and advice, but also to many others for helping us to make our website www.three-monkeys.info to what it is today.

 

Greetings from your webmaster, Emil Schuttenhelm.

 

[333] M-Ref

from: Japan

 

3 Monkeys Collector?: no

 

Friday, December 24. 2010 at 06:24 pm       

 

 

Merry Christmas to you!

 

The photos are:
1. White three monkeys in Yamagata. A White monkey is a rare piece, and
called as Mountain Deities in Japan. Folks in Yamagata (northern Japan) believe that white monkeys deliver them the good crops.

 


                                                                       (photo by Kagami? Fumio)


2. My Crimbo decoration,

M-Ref

 

[332] Gozen en Gerda Beikes

from: Nederland

 

HZZ verzamelaar?: ja

Friday, December 24. 2010 at 00:01 am        

 

 

Hallo allemaal,

We wensen jullie allemaal hele fijne en gezellige Kerstdagen

en

Heel veel liefde, geluk en gezondheid voor 2011. 

Groetjes

Gozen en Gerda Beikes

 

[331] Ans en Ben Dielman

from: Nederland

 

HZZ verzamelaar?: ja

Thursday, December 23. 2010 at 03:28 am        

 

We wensen jullie ,en hen die jullie omringen,
het allerbeste voor het nieuwe jaar

Geluk in grote en in kleine dingen

Maar bovenal gelukkig met elkaar

En een bijzonder goed 2011

in  goede gezondheid

Met vriendelijke groeten

Ans en Ben Dielman

 

[330] Thea Bruns

from: Nederland

 

HZZ verzamelaar?: nee

Wednesday, December 22. 2010 at 09:01 am        

 

Hallo,

Voor de verzamelaars van horen, zien en zwijgen heb ik een paar leuke setjes gemaakt. Het gaat om Boeddha's die op een paneel of op een bal zitten.

Het zijn leuke setjes geworden, mogelijk dat er mensen zijn die hier belangstelling voor hebben. Voor meer informatie kunt U kijken op mijn site, info@freubelhuukske.nl of mailt U mij even.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Thea