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"There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also been proposed as the rhyme's subject.
There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe", a popular English language nursery rhyme "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill", a nursery rhyme which dates back to at least its first known printing in 1714
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Great Britain 1784 [104] The earliest printed version is in Joseph Ritson's Gammer Gurton's Garland. There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill: Great Britain 1714 [105] First appeared as part of a catch in The Academy of Complements. This Is the House That Jack Built 'The House That Jack Built ...
In his The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children (1888), the American collector of folklore, Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903), quoted an old lady who remembered a longer version of this rhyme as being used in Wrentham, Massachusetts as early as 1780. Beyond the first four lines, it proceeded: Nine, ten, kill a fat hen;
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There was an old woman Liv'd under a hill, And if she ben't gone, She lives there still— appeared as part of a catch in The Academy of Complements. [2] In 1744 these lines appeared by themselves (in a slightly different form) in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the first extant collection of nursery rhymes. [3]
The song tells the nonsensical story of an old woman who swallows increasingly large animals, each to catch the previously swallowed animal, but dies after swallowing a horse. There are many variations of phrasing in the lyrics, especially for the description of swallowing each animal. Our first Wren evening was a "knockout," in the spring of 1943.
Old Mother Hubbard and her diner; Gordon rearranging his wardrobe; Gordon's remark about summer vacation; Mary and her lamb disappearing after Little Bo Peep and Gordon leave; The Old Woman in the shoe reprimanding her many children by saying, "wait till your fathers get home," implying she has had many partners. Introductory speech for Old ...