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Eggs and Marrowbone" (Laws Q2, Roud 183), [1] also known as "There Was An Old Woman", is a traditional folk song of a wife's attempted murder of her husband. Of unknown origins, there are multiple variations.
It remains popular today and, with 2,200 cover versions, [2] is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. [note 1] "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the ...
"Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" is a song written by Jack Clement and originally recorded by Johnny Cash on Columbia Records for his novelty album Everybody Loves a Nut, released in 1966. Cash notably performed the song at Folsom Prison on January 13, 1968, and it appears on his live album At Folsom Prison released later that year.
The theme song to the 2008-2010 TV series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is a version of the song with modified lyrics, referring to "a place called Candied Island" instead of "Big Rock Candy Mountain". The series itself echoes the song, as it features two hobo-like characters searching for the fabled paradise of Candied Island.
"The Little Black Egg" is a song first performed by Daytona Beach, Florida garage band the Nightcrawlers in 1965. [5] It was a minor hit in both the US and Canada, reaching number 85 on the US Billboard charts in 1967, [ 7 ] while doing slightly better in Canada, where it hit number 74. [ 8 ]
This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title. The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the ...
I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1936 film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire had a huge hit with the song in 1936 and other popular versions that year were by Jan Garber (vocal by Fritz Heilbron) and by Guy Lombardo (vocal by Carmen ...
Title Other titles Place of origin Date first recorded [a] Origin Animal Fair: United States c. 1898 [119] Origin unknown, sung by minstrels and sailors as early as 1898. As I was going by Charing Cross 'As I was going to Charing Cross' United Kingdom c. 1845 [120] Origin unknown, the rhyme is thought to refer to the equestrian statue of Charles I.