There Was a Man Who Had No Eyes

DESCRIPTION: Riddle. "There was a man who had no eyes, He went abroad to view the skies. He saw a tree with apples on. He took no apples off Yet left no apples on."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: riddle food | tree
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greenway-FolkloreOfTheGreatWest, p. 64, "(There was a man who had no eyes)" (1 text)
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 323, "There was a man who had no eyes" (1 text)
Roud #20131
NOTES [59 words]: The alleged solution to this riddle is that the man who had no eyes actually had one eye, and saw a tree with two apples, of which he took one. Which I refuse to accept, because it violates the conditions of the riddle. A modern proposal has a sign on the tree that reads "Apples." Which almost works. Make the sign to be in braille, and it truly works. - RBW
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