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"Old King Cole" was the subject of a 1923 one-act ballet by Ralph Vaughan Williams. In 1960, a variation of the song was released on Harry Belafonte's live album Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall. The first four lines of "Old King Cole" are quoted in the song "The Musical Box" by Genesis (from their third album, Nursery Cryme, released in 1971).
"Over the Hills and Far Away" is a traditional English song, dating back to at least the late 17th century. Two versions were published in the fifth volume of Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy ; a version that is similar to the second Wit and Mirth one appears in George Farquhar 's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer .
First mentioned under the title 'Old Tarlton's song', attributed to the stage clown Richard Tarlton (1530–1588). The Lion and the Unicorn: Great Britain 1708 [98] In 1708, William King (1663–1712) recorded a verse very similar to the first stanza of the modern rhyme. The Old Woman and Her Pig 'The Old Woman who found a Silver Penny' United ...
"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" is an English folk song about a man admiring the woman he loves as she goes through daily stages of washing and ironing clothes. It is classified as Roud number 869. [ 1 ]
Caption reads "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, 1877. Artwork by Walter Crane. "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882
The song is also associated with the region, having been used by the supporters of Robert Shafto (sometimes spelt Shaftoe), who was an eighteenth-century British Member of Parliament (MP) for County Durham (c. 1730–97), and later the borough of Downton in Wiltshire. [1] Supporters used another verse in the 1761 election: Bobby Shafto's ...
The following lyrics are taken from the sheet music published in 1906: [1] [2] Verse 1: When I was in the army I was a cavalry man, you know, And whenever I went on parade A magnificent picture I made. Through my galloping here, and my galloping there, This ridiculous habit I got, And I'm hanged if I don't think I'm galloping now
The song was included in one of the jukebox songs in the edutainment PC game, Jumpstart 2nd Grade. In the 1998 Disney / Pixar film A Bug's Life , Francis the Ladybug references the song's title. The Australian children's show Play School recorded a version for the albums There's A Bear In There , sung by Noni Hazlehurst , and In The Car , sung ...