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"There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" is a cumulative (repetitive, connected poetic lines or song lyrics) children's nursery rhyme or nonsensical song. Other titles for the rhyme include "There Was an Old Lady", "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly", "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly" and "I Know an Old Woman Who Swallowed a ...
"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.
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.
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.
Other interpretations exist. Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey note in Birds Britannica that the greylag goose has for millennia been associated with fertility, that "goose" still has a sexual meaning in British culture, and that the nursery rhyme preserves these sexual overtones ("In my lady's chamber"). [7] "
Martha Stewart, 82, shares how she resists becoming an “old-fashioned old lady” in her new MasterClass, Think Like a Boss, Live Like a Legend, available now.
Martha Stewart, 82, shares how she resists becoming an “old-fashioned old lady” in her new MasterClass, Think Like a Boss, Live Like a Legend, available now.
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