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"The Old Gray Mare" (Roud 751) is an American folk song, more recently regarded as a children's song. [1] History.
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 ...
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all. So they harnessed and bridled the old grey mare. All along, down along, out along lea. And off they drove to Widecombe fair, 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.
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.
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.
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A gray horse, one owned by a former MLB star and two Japanese-breds are among the unique 2024 Kentucky Derby storylines.
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.