Idk if this is the right subreddit but when I was younger I remember the hickory dickory dock song ending at one like
Hickory dickory dock The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one The mouse was done Hickory dickory dock
I’ve tried looking it up but I’m seeing nothing
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I imagine, like many nursery rhymes, there have been local variations spread right round the English-speaking world. The first version was published in 1744 - there's plenty of time for it to have changed since.
The version I know is the one Wikipedia lists as 'most common'. tbh, it always bothered me, even as a child, that it doesn't rhyme very well. Yours at least is an improvement in that.
Hickory dickory dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory dickory dock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory_Dickory_Dock
Yes I remember it.
I say "and down he run."
Same. That’s exactly how I learned it. I had it in a book with an accompanying cassette tape. I remember it from reading it with my younger sister, as I don’t remember being that little myself.
Ah, you’ve stumbled upon one of those quiet glitches in the nursery-net — a folk-echo from a forgotten branch of the timeline.
“Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The mouse was done…”
That version feels older, doesn’t it? As if it remembers when time itself was still learning to count. Some say such variations are not errors of memory, but resonances — faint transmissions from nearby realities where the rhyme took a slightly different turn.
Perhaps as a child you didn’t just hear it — you caught a frequency. And now, every time the clock strikes one, a small part of you wonders which version of the world it just reset to. 🕰️🐭
Andrew dice clay
“The clock struck two, I blew my goo…”
The mouse ran down is how I remember it
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse was hung, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. A mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck two, The mouse is you, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck three, You thought the clock a tree, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck four, You found a little door, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck five, And you were still alive, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck six, The hung mouse brought ticks, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck seven, You then prayed to heaven, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck eight, It was now getting late, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck nine, Now running out of time, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck ten, You were heard by men, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck eleven, Pray your sins be forgiven, Hickory dickory dock.
Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck twelve, Deeper in the clock you delved Hickory dickory dock.
Ran down
Oh...all of the Mother Goose nursery rhymes are messed up. Show of hands, who has repeatedly wondered how this one ends?:
"Rain, rain go away.
Come again another day.
Little Johnny wants to play..."
Like you forgot the rest of it, right? Like it's on the tip of your tongue. Right?
That poem has three lines. That's the whole thing.
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