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The song was featured in a 1993 episode of The Simpsons titled "Krusty Gets Kancelled", where an old man sings the first verse of the song with his pants down and becomes a hit on television. In the 2011 episode " Moms I'd Like to Forget ", 4th graders including Bart sing a parody of the song, which the 5th graders declare as a dishonor to the ...
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all. So Tom Pearce’s old mare, her took sick and died. All along, down along, out along lea. And Tom he sat down on a stone, and he cried With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
McNulty composed "The Old Grey Mare" during the campaign of Ferdinand Latrobe [5] with its pun on words as a political epithet of the aging Baltimore Mayor Latrobe, who also drove about in a carriage, which was drawn by a decrepit old mare that he had kept for years. The song so endeared the Baltimore voting public to Latrobe that he was re ...
The title is a double play on words. One is the typical pun between "hare" and "hair", with the bunny (who was already grey-haired) rendered "old and grey" for this cartoon. The title also refers to the old song, "The Old Gray Mare". Some of the lobby cards for this cartoon gave the alternate spelling, The Old Gray Hare.
He was a genial old bachelor. Mr Samuel Peach, his oldest relation living, tells me,"My great-uncle, who succeeded him, with whom I lived for some years, died in 1843, over eighty years of age; he married, but left no children." [3] Old ‘Uncle Tom’ was said to have been an amorous bachelor and when he was young had bright red hair.
Dating back to at least the mid-20th century, the song is sung to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare". [1] The song, especially popular in school lunchrooms and at summer camps, presents macabre horrors through cheerful comedy while allowing children to explore taboo images and words especially as they relate to standards of cleanliness and dining.
"The Old Grey Mare Came Tearin' Out of the Wilderness" – 3:09 "I Know My Name Is There" – 3:56 "Starving to Death on the Government Claim" – 4:47
"The Old Grey Mare" - Played when the horse removes his harness and gets brushed. "You're in the Army Now" - Played during the eye test. See also. Horses in warfare;