I wrote a similar song for the lesser inverse ukulele and rough-grade NorthWestern hamster's pipe. it was also in the key of "S" except the bridge which was in lowercase "s-" to give a slight sense of tension to the 6th course milkafarr transition.
Little Mouse really brings me back to the mid 1970s where my Dad would always drive me to school, and we'd hear this played on the radio at least 335 times a day. Whenever it came on my Dad used to always switch the radio off. Apparently he'd rather listen to turgid so called "music' from the likes of Thomson Twins and Eminem.
Chat GPT's response (Verse 1) In a world of castles high and tales untold, Lived a little mouse, so brave and bold. In feudal times, where knights would fight, Our tiny hero sought his own delight. (Chorus) Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true, Your spirit shines in the world you knew. In a land of honor and ancient ways, You're the one who'll change the game they play. (Verse 2) With armor made of petals and a sword of straw, He dreamed of triumphs and the battles he saw. Through towering fields and meadows wide, He'd scurry with purpose, with courage as his guide. (Chorus) Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true, Your spirit shines in the world you knew. In a land of honor and ancient ways, You're the one who'll change the game they play. (Bridge) The noble lords would scoff and sneer, At the little mouse they held so dear. But he had a spirit they could never tame, A hero's soul, a flicker of fame. (Verse 3) In the shadows he'd hide, plotting his moves, A tiny knight with everything to prove. Through treacherous halls and dim-lit rooms, He'd navigate dangers, dispelling gloom. (Chorus) Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true, Your spirit shines in the world you knew. In a land of honor and ancient ways, You're the one who'll change the game they play. (Verse 4) With cunning and wit, he'd outsmart them all, Toppling tyrants with his minuscule call. He'd rally the oppressed, bring hope anew, A champion for the weak, the just, the few. (Chorus) Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true, Your spirit shines in the world you knew. In a land of honor and ancient ways, You're the one who'll change the game they play. (Outro) Though time may pass and tales may fade, The legend lives on, in songs we've made. So, let us honor this little mouse's quest, A hero in fur, forever blessed.
OMG, I remember these in the 70's, we used to go into the assembly room and the teacher used to set up a massive telly on a huge stand, and vividly remember having to write down stuff, thants for the memory, incidentally the guy who invented psilence, think his name was Len, was the uncle of a girl I had a crush on.......
I make it Andante myself, rather than quite fast, and a few chords are borrowed from the Q minor scale, but otherwise the Harrington 1200 did a very good job!
I'm American but because I saw so much Monty Python growing up I understand British humour and those ITV specials they parody here. Thanks mouse Thouse.
*yawn* So many "Im American but I understand British comedy". As a Brit myself I can say theres nothing special about British comedy. Theres a ton of really shit comedians and sketch shows that just aren't funny. Just like in American comedy.
I asked ChatGPT to write a song about Little Mouse and it's eerily similar: Sure, here's a quick little song about a little mouse: Verse 1: Little mouse, scurrying around, Tiny paws barely making a sound, Nose twitching, whiskers long, Searching for cheese, all day long. Chorus: Little mouse, little mouse, So quick and so nimble, Running through the house, Never ever stumble. Verse 2: In the fields or in the house, Little mouse is always on the prowl, Through the walls and under the floors, Looking for crumbs and hidden stores. Chorus: Little mouse, little mouse, So quick and so nimble, Running through the house, Never ever stumble. Bridge: Though he may be small in size, This little mouse is quite wise, He knows just where to look, For every last tasty nook. Chorus: Little mouse, little mouse, So quick and so nimble, Running through the house, Never ever stumble. Outro: Little mouse, with your tiny feet, You make our hearts skip a beat, As you scurry here and there, We can't help but stop and stare.
S and U are both cyclic inversions of A half minor, what jazz musicians call the "trouser keys". When the song demodulates in the chorus, the lonely tone becomes the subdeviant, which shifts the weight onto the other leg. It's classic Gilbert and Sullivan.
Even if it was a fake mouse, the whole punchline is that an animal was put in a probability deadly situation within the fiction of the sketch. So it is indeed an animal cruelty joke, and it is funny
Ones with original Gilbert and Sullivan samples go for several tens of thousands, since a lot of these samples had defective preservatives, meaning they degraded within ten years of manufacture.
Surely inspired by Jethro Tull's _One Brown Mouse_: Smile your little smile Take some tea, we'll be a while Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder Twitch your whiskers, feel That you're really real Another teatime, another day older Puff warm breath on your tiny hands You wish you were a man Who every day can turn another page Behind your glass you sit and look At my ever-open book One brown mouse, sitting in a cage! Do you wonder if I really care for you? Am I just the company you keep? Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill? Who hides his head, pretending to sleep? Smile your little smile Take some tea, we'll be a while Brush away that black cloud from your shoulders Twitch your whiskers, feel That you're really real Another teatime, another day older Smile your little smile Take some tea, we'll be a while And every day we'll turn another page Behind your glass we'll sit and look At our ever-open book One brown mouse, sitting in a cage One brown mouse, sitting in a cage One brown mouse, sitting in a cage
"And who knows, he may have a hit on his hands." Puts cassette in Manila Tosses in mouse Licks envelope and closesnit Mouse sqeaks in pain Fingers crossed
Little mouse: I remember the nite scratching at my door very small and white I shook you by the paw 'cause I like you my friend I respect you my friend I'll encourage you my friend through and throoooooooooooooouuuuugh Hey! now! little mouse I hope we understand one another Hey! now! little mouse show me what to do (little mouse!) hey! now! little mouse somethings wrong with caring about you hey! now! little mouse show me what to do show them what to do it's enough for me and yooooooooouuu
That's because nobody has ever made a karaoke video of it....until now. Behold, for the first time on the internet anywhere, it's the karaoke version of Jack Morgan's Little Mouse...in the key of S: ruclips.net/video/ybhk5GB5Qws/видео.html
Tempo = quite fast. This is the line that has stayed with me for years
Thanks, mouse.
Thouse.
Shut up overrated youtube comment
SHUOYOMMENT
@@spacekitt.n you're just sad because someone made a good joke
Great banter
Ganter
Have a like for the Ram Disk.
Ram Disk
Risk
It's amazing how far songwriting technology has come since then.
Thanks Jack.
Thack.
I wrote a similar song for the lesser inverse ukulele and rough-grade NorthWestern hamster's pipe. it was also in the key of "S" except the bridge which was in lowercase "s-" to give a slight sense of tension to the 6th course milkafarr transition.
palaeomerus It’s a shame Harry Partch is no longer alive. I’ll bet it would’ve been a perfect piece for his orchestra.
milkich
oh thats cool, i wrote a variation of this song on my siberian widdle, but it got lost due to jameson's radiation
Little Mouse really brings me back to the mid 1970s where my Dad would always drive me to school, and we'd hear this played on the radio at least 335 times a day. Whenever it came on my Dad used to always switch the radio off. Apparently he'd rather listen to turgid so called "music' from the likes of Thomson Twins and Eminem.
Had it been me, that's when I would have gotten out my old Grozart records and blasted out his music.
So you had access to a time machine during your youth too?
@@icu22day Yep. Rumour has it that Back to the Future stole my idea.
Putting the mouse in the envelope always gets me.
Breaking the tab off the tape as well. He'll have to put some sticky tape over the hole if he wants to use it again.
Bless you, Mouse. Blouse.
The Harrington 1200 light years ahead of Chat GPT, write that down.
Chat GPT's response
(Verse 1)
In a world of castles high and tales untold,
Lived a little mouse, so brave and bold.
In feudal times, where knights would fight,
Our tiny hero sought his own delight.
(Chorus)
Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true,
Your spirit shines in the world you knew.
In a land of honor and ancient ways,
You're the one who'll change the game they play.
(Verse 2)
With armor made of petals and a sword of straw,
He dreamed of triumphs and the battles he saw.
Through towering fields and meadows wide,
He'd scurry with purpose, with courage as his guide.
(Chorus)
Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true,
Your spirit shines in the world you knew.
In a land of honor and ancient ways,
You're the one who'll change the game they play.
(Bridge)
The noble lords would scoff and sneer,
At the little mouse they held so dear.
But he had a spirit they could never tame,
A hero's soul, a flicker of fame.
(Verse 3)
In the shadows he'd hide, plotting his moves,
A tiny knight with everything to prove.
Through treacherous halls and dim-lit rooms,
He'd navigate dangers, dispelling gloom.
(Chorus)
Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true,
Your spirit shines in the world you knew.
In a land of honor and ancient ways,
You're the one who'll change the game they play.
(Verse 4)
With cunning and wit, he'd outsmart them all,
Toppling tyrants with his minuscule call.
He'd rally the oppressed, bring hope anew,
A champion for the weak, the just, the few.
(Chorus)
Oh, little mouse, with a heart so true,
Your spirit shines in the world you knew.
In a land of honor and ancient ways,
You're the one who'll change the game they play.
(Outro)
Though time may pass and tales may fade,
The legend lives on, in songs we've made.
So, let us honor this little mouse's quest,
A hero in fur, forever blessed.
OMG, I remember these in the 70's, we used to go into the assembly room and the teacher used to set up a massive telly on a huge stand, and vividly remember having to write down stuff, thants for the memory, incidentally the guy who invented psilence, think his name was Len, was the uncle of a girl I had a crush on.......
My best friend (deceased) and I would always laugh like hell at this one, drunk or not. Good times.
Nice touch to break the record seal on the cassette at the end.
I'm trying to tune my guitar to the key of S, but it is taking FOREVER
I usually just start at Z, but then drop it down a forte
It goes a bit quicker on a 2-pi string
Synthesiser Patel is the only human who can tune a guitar to the key of S.
@@runlarryrun77 That is a meme, tuning for S became a lot simpler when Nakajima String Corporation started to make specific sets for them in 1989.
I make it Andante myself, rather than quite fast, and a few chords are borrowed from the Q minor scale, but otherwise the Harrington 1200 did a very good job!
I'm American but because I saw so much Monty Python growing up I understand British humour and those ITV specials they parody here. Thanks mouse Thouse.
*yawn* So many "Im American but I understand British comedy". As a Brit myself I can say theres nothing special about British comedy. Theres a ton of really shit comedians and sketch shows that just aren't funny. Just like in American comedy.
@@Festivejelly Maybe, but the key difference between British and American comedy is that the British style also has some stuff that _is_ funny.
Actually a really good chorus there.
I wish mainstream music went in this direction
This has a lot more relevance today at the dawn of machine learning than it did 10 years ago.
I asked ChatGPT to write a song about Little Mouse and it's eerily similar:
Sure, here's a quick little song about a little mouse:
Verse 1:
Little mouse, scurrying around,
Tiny paws barely making a sound,
Nose twitching, whiskers long,
Searching for cheese, all day long.
Chorus:
Little mouse, little mouse,
So quick and so nimble,
Running through the house,
Never ever stumble.
Verse 2:
In the fields or in the house,
Little mouse is always on the prowl,
Through the walls and under the floors,
Looking for crumbs and hidden stores.
Chorus:
Little mouse, little mouse,
So quick and so nimble,
Running through the house,
Never ever stumble.
Bridge:
Though he may be small in size,
This little mouse is quite wise,
He knows just where to look,
For every last tasty nook.
Chorus:
Little mouse, little mouse,
So quick and so nimble,
Running through the house,
Never ever stumble.
Outro:
Little mouse, with your tiny feet,
You make our hearts skip a beat,
As you scurry here and there,
We can't help but stop and stare.
I imagined that to the tune of Little Mouse.
I like how they say it's in the key of S but then you listen to it and it's actually in the key of U.
The minor inversion may give that impression to the untutored ear, my friend.
Try listening after shooting up💉💉💉
S and U are both cyclic inversions of A half minor, what jazz musicians call the "trouser keys". When the song demodulates in the chorus, the lonely tone becomes the subdeviant, which shifts the weight onto the other leg. It's classic Gilbert and Sullivan.
I shouldn't laugh at animal cruelty but throwing the mouse in the envelope was a lmao moment.
I don't think it was even a real mouse.
There was no animal cruelty.
Even if it was a fake mouse, the whole punchline is that an animal was put in a probability deadly situation within the fiction of the sketch. So it is indeed an animal cruelty joke, and it is funny
I also love how the envelope address was written using dymo tape
This is actually how ChatGPT works.
it actually is, nice future looking for a show that came out in 2005 or so
Also Suno/Udio for the actual music now!
Harrington 1200's go for thousands on ebay these days.
I've yet to see one in real life.
Ones with original Gilbert and Sullivan samples go for several tens of thousands, since a lot of these samples had defective preservatives, meaning they degraded within ten years of manufacture.
I could never seem to save up that last half of a penny to be able to afford one. The first 999 pounds were easy, it was always that dratted 1/2 p.
I do hope they come with burglar alarms
@@TripleAlfafa Yes nothing sounds worse than a wobbly agar. Thankfully by the 1990's digital voltage controlled agar guaranteed a nice stable tuning.
love this song, I need to rewatch this show, also the song computer is an EMS Putney VCS3
this song still gets stuck in my head
These days a Harrington 1200 in reasonable condition will set you back at least £9999.99½.
2:49 remembered to snap the recording control tab off the tape :D
Easily got round using the clever device of a small piece of selotape :)
Featuring the EMS VCS3 (The Putney) as “The Harrington 1200.”
Surely inspired by Jethro Tull's _One Brown Mouse_:
Smile your little smile
Take some tea, we'll be a while
Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder
Twitch your whiskers, feel
That you're really real
Another teatime, another day older
Puff warm breath on your tiny hands
You wish you were a man
Who every day can turn another page
Behind your glass you sit and look
At my ever-open book
One brown mouse, sitting in a cage!
Do you wonder if I really care for you?
Am I just the company you keep?
Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill?
Who hides his head, pretending to sleep?
Smile your little smile
Take some tea, we'll be a while
Brush away that black cloud from your shoulders
Twitch your whiskers, feel
That you're really real
Another teatime, another day older
Smile your little smile
Take some tea, we'll be a while
And every day we'll turn another page
Behind your glass we'll sit and look
At our ever-open book
One brown mouse, sitting in a cage
One brown mouse, sitting in a cage
One brown mouse, sitting in a cage
Pretty sure Jethro Tull were inspired by Jack Morgan.
I think One Brown Mouse may itself have been inspired by Robert Burns.
ＡＮ ＥＸＰＥＲＩＭＥＮＴ ＷＡＳ ＣＡＲＲＩＥＤ ＯＵＴ
A CHANGE HAS TAKEN PLACE
His son now plays drums for Black Midi
This song came back to me as I was playing Moss.
Is the Lennon & McCartney DNA option still available.
Alternate universe Mike Oldfield
@hi there Okay
Why do I know that name
I'm eagerly awaiting the Harrington 1201!
My doorbell rang about 10 seconds after the doorbell sound in the video and a had to double check it was real.
little mouse is the best :)
I was disappointed he didn't say "copybook"
yay, VCS3 cameo! :)
and a Roland TR-66 Rhythm Arranger. Nice little setup.
"And who knows, he may have a hit on his hands."
Puts cassette in Manila
Tosses in mouse
Licks envelope and closesnit
Mouse sqeaks in pain
Fingers crossed
Part of the press kit
With the address printed on plastic Dymo labels
Song was inspired by Syd Barrett.
All of Pink Floyd's music is actually played on a Harrington 1200
@@NidgeOSullivan That's a pretty cool fact. I didn't even know a Harrington was an actual thing.
@@bobdown8043 good job
actually wild prediction
... it’s enough for me and yoooou!
Where can I get little mouse’s autograph? 😂
ah, finding a title, the most complex and random task in the process of making a song
S
little mouse
When Jack Morgan sings in the mouse voice at 2:37 or so, what does he say exactly? I love the key of "S".
He squeaks "it's enough for me and you", I think.
They predicted Chat GPT
Brilliant :)
Harrington 1200 was gong long before Ai was making music
I love the key of S.
I want that owl at 1:07
I just had to check that, and now I want it too.
I thought that was a bit of Garry Gum, but you're right!
Little mouse:
I remember the nite
scratching at my door
very small and white
I shook you by the paw
'cause I like you my friend
I respect you my friend
I'll encourage you my friend
through and throoooooooooooooouuuuugh
Hey! now! little mouse
I hope we understand one another
Hey! now! little mouse
show me what to do
(little mouse!)
hey! now! little mouse
somethings wrong with caring about you
hey! now! little mouse
show me what to do
show them what to do
it's enough for me and yooooooooouuu
Isn't it "something's moving there in the bathroom"?
@@joshuakohlmann9731 yes, thanks!
Quite fast
Good job he didn't say fairly fast as it would have ruined the song.
Funnily enough this is also what is running ChatGPT. The DNA samples have just grown much larger now.
Jusy recently discovered Look around you and I can't get enough: obviously already started annoying my partner with Macadeyyynuuu on loop...
This sounds like a song you'd hear in Total Distortion.
With Generative AI this crap is now literally true
£1000!!! Write it down.
Easy to remember, it's the same temperature that water boils at.
£1000
1:25 acid techno
This is how the world works now
Behringer remake coming soon
IF you can afford it, it beats ai.
Look Around You predicting AI
It's good, but it's no Reggae Man
I believe Behringer plan to clone the Harrington 1200.
The key of S
They never ever have this at karaoke night
That's because nobody has ever made a karaoke video of it....until now. Behold, for the first time on the internet anywhere, it's the karaoke version of Jack Morgan's Little Mouse...in the key of S: ruclips.net/video/ybhk5GB5Qws/видео.html
@@BrettSonicBluBlumfieldVideos I'm speechless
DNA at work
Now there is AI that can write songs
I wish Gilbert and Sullivan were still with us today 😔
Well, they aren't still with us today, but would you settle for Gilbert O'Sullivan? He's still around.
@@BrettSonicBluBlumfieldVideos Absolutely! 🇮🇪 ❤️ 🎶
Cool video !!
The original A.I. created music
Ah yes AI existed 10 years ago.
All Synthesizooor music is in the key of S
I can't imagine how much is £1000
Write that down.
CR78, too :)
Harrington lol
Totally predicts AI
"comprises of" ? Gah!
I think they accidentally used a sample from Gilbert O'Sullivan.
When was this made?
Original run 10 October 2002 - 7 March 2005
Felix Anteater It's from the first series 2002.
But it looks like it was filmed in 1977!
Max Brandt That is the point, it's a spoof on the old educational videos that used to be made.
Djarra Oh, yes! I know that and that's why I love this show!
13 people don't respect little mouse
Still a better tune than anything Harry Styles or Westlife will ever do.
i can’t help but hunk of the plot of Ratatouille 🤔 lmao did Disney rip this idea off of Look Around You??
Back when science was worth a SH1T.
I am a professional musician in my late twenties and can tell you for definite that S is not a musical key
Then how did he make that song in the key of S? You're so silly.
Oh dear, how embarrassing to not know that. How did you ever get your Music Permit?
Ok "professional". I bet you've never even noticed the Boîte Diabolique on the end of the piano. Smh...
@@gonufc I doubt he has a permit, or is even a musician. I know the key of S and I don't know a Portuguese viola from an extended trombone.
good job
Write that down.
S