Three, triad, triplets, trio, trinity...


27 comments:

Deborah in IL said...

But I don't really see
Why can't we go on as three?

Triad
David Crosby

Cap'n Franko said...

Won't you gimme three steps,
Gimme three stps, mister.
Gimme three steps toward the door.

Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Anonymous said...

You're once, twice,
Three times a lady
And I love you

Three Times A Lady
Commodores

Deanne said...

And the three men I admire most,
the father, son, and holy ghost,
They took the last train for the coast,
the day the music died.

American Pie - Don McLean

Sandra Dodd said...

Three jolly coachmen
Sat in an English tavern

(an 8-word retread from another topic :-)

Deborah in IL said...

I saw three ships come sailing in
on Christmas day in the morning

NLWooton said...

The next rejoice that Mary had
It was the joy of three

The Seven Rejoices of Mary
Trad. - Loreena McKennitt

Sylvia said...

we three kings of orient are
bearing gifts we traverse afar

old xmas song

Anonymous said...

Knock three times on the ceiling if you love me
Twice on the pipe, if the answer is no

Knock Three Times
Tony Orlando and Dawn

Sandra Dodd said...

I saw three Pueblo children, minding their sheep

"Corn, Water and Wood"

Anonymous said...

After three days in the desert fun
I was looking at a river bed

A Horse With No Name
America

Sandra Dodd said...

Mother duck said "quack quack, quack quack"
But only three little duckies came back

(we know it by Raffi, but I don't know if it's his own song)

Anonymous said...

A B C
Easy as 1 2 3
Simple as Do Re Me

ABC
The Jackson Five

Anonymous said...

Three blind mice
Three blind mice
See how they run
See how they run
They all ran after the farmer's wife

song from childhood

(thanks for correcting my Knock 3 times, Sandra - need to proof read better)

Sandra Dodd said...

DOH, I wasn't trying to correct it, I was trying to play it. I hadn't seen you played it. Sorry.

SO if it looks like Mercedes played twice in a row, that's only because I deleted my cheatery play. :-)

Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves...

Deborah in IL said...

Day by day
Day by day
Oh dear lord
Three things I pray

from Godspell

Sandra Dodd said...

So I held out my hand and said those three little words
That I'd been holding for so long inside...

Da Vinci's Notebook (in their wonderful parody of Bat out of Hell (the whole album, the poetry and musical style, in one song)

Colleen P (NH) said...

One, two
Buckle my shoe
Three, four
Shut the door

Don't know if it has a name - I just know it as "the Buckle My Shoe song" :-)

Anonymous said...

Now don't be sad
'Cause two out of three ain't bad

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Meatloaf

Colleen P (NH) said...

Rise up this morning
Smiled with the rising sun
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep

Three Little Birds
Bob Marley

Deborah in IL said...

But now here beside the sea
Are the footprints of three
And I can't find my own
Among the directions they're all going

Take This Rain
Jackson Browne

Deanne said...

My hat it has three corners, three corners has my hat,
And had it not three corners, it would not be my hat.

Don't know origin, learned it from Barney videos

Sylvia said...

and then she says,
Baby, it's 3 am,
I must be lonely

3AM
Matchbox Twenty

Anonymous said...

Jenny, I got your number
8 6 7 5 3 0 9


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Bob Collier said...

We're three caballeros, three gay caballeros, they say we are birds of a feather ...

The Three Caballeros, I think it's from an old movie.

ps pirro said...

they are one person
they are two alone
they are three together
they are for each other


Helplessly Hoping
Crosby, Stills & Nash

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

You wouldn't know how agonizing being triplets can be

(Schwartz/Dietz, from "The Bandwagon")