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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
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 Kingdom 1806 [99] "The True History of a Little Old Woman Who Found a Silver Penny" published by Tabart & Co. at No. 157 New Bond Street, London, for their Juvenile ...
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill; This Is the House That Jack Built; This Little Piggy; This Old Man; Three Blind Mice; The Three Jovial Huntsmen; Three Little Kittens; Tinker, Tailor; To market, to market; Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Two Little Dickie Birds
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]
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill; There's a Hole in My Bucket; This Is the House That Jack Built; This Little Light of Mine; This Little Piggy; This Old Man; Three Blind Mice; The Three Jovial Huntsmen; Three Little Kittens; Tinker, Tailor; To ...
It was followed in 1910 by The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book, containing other rhymes too. This had coloured full-page illustrations: composites for lines 1-2 and 3–4, and then one for each individual line. [10] In America the rhyme was used to help young people learn to count and was also individually published.
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 ...