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There was an old lady who swallowed a bird; How absurd to swallow a bird! She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die! There was an old lady who swallowed a cat; Well, fancy that, she swallowed ...
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Alan Mills CM (born Albert Miller ; September 7, 1912 or 1913 – June 14, 1977 ) [ 1 ] was a Canadian folksinger, [ 2 ] writer, and actor. He was best known for popularizing Canadian folk music, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and for his original song, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly .
"On Top of Old Smokey" "Fast Food Song" (a song using the names of several fast food franchises) "Popeye the Sailor Man" (theme song from the 20th-century cartoon series) "Ring Around the Rosie" "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "Sea Lion Woman" "See Saw Margery Daw" "Singing To The Bus Driver" "Stella Ella Ola" "Ten Green Bottles" "The Song That Never ...
Ives had several film and television roles during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1961, he sang the folk song, "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" for a short film of the same name produced by the National Film Board of Canada. [23] In 1962, he starred with Rock Hudson in The Spiral Road, which was based on a novel of the same name by Jan de Hartog.
"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.
The Wheels on the Bus and More Sing-Along Favorites (The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zelinsky; Dem Bones illustrated by Bob Barner; Over in the Meadow by John Langstaff, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Rose Bonne and Alan Mills; I Want a Dog by Dayal Kaur Khalsa; The Chinese Violin by Madeleine ...
There was an old lady who swallowed a rhinoceros; How prepoceros! To swallow a rhinoceros! She swallowed the rhinoceros to catch the cow... etc. Kostaki mou 03:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC) There's another version which has her swallow a pig. "Oh, what a prig, To swallow a pig." Burl Ives sang that version. In it, the pig replaces the cow.
There Was an Old Woman, 1943 mystery novel by Ellery Queen "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly", 1950s children's song by Alan Mills "There Was an Old Woman" (The Twilight Zone), 1988 The Twilight Zone television episode