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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 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 ...
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 ...
Another similar album was released in 1983, called "The Drunken Sailor". The rights for "Music for Pleasure" were sold to EMI Gold, who released an hour-long cassette called "Favourite Nursery Rhymes" in 1985. It contained all these tracks except "Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket" and "Boys and Girls come out to Play".
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
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 ...
"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" "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"
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]