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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 1964, the National Film Board of Canada released the award-winning 5-minute cartoon I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, directed by Derek Lamb. [12] Meredith Tax used this poetic form in her 1970 feminist poem There Was a Young Woman Who Swallowed a Lie, in which the woman finally "throws up" the lies she swallowed. [13]
something old – sprigs of myrtle in the bouquet, and fabric from the wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer [15] something new – Givenchy wedding gown (designed by Clare Waight Keller), veil, and shoes, and Cartier jewelry, diamond earrings, and bracelet [15] something borrowed – the Diamond Bandeau Tiara, loaned by the Queen for the ...
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Great Britain 1784 [104] The earliest printed version is in Joseph Ritson's Gammer Gurton's Garland. There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill: Great Britain 1714 [105] First appeared as part of a catch in The Academy of Complements. This Is the House That Jack Built 'The House That Jack Built ...
There was an old woman and she lived in the woods Weela Weela Walya There was an old woman and she lived in the woods Down by the river Saile. [n 1] [11] She had a baby three months old Weela Weela Walya She had a baby three months old Down by the river Saile. She had a penknife long and sharp Weela Weela Walya She had a penknife long and sharp
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]
The poem became well known in America after Liz Carpenter (formerly the first woman executive assistant to Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Press Secretary to former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson), wrote an article for the Reader's Digest in the early 1980s, about enjoying life having recovered from an illness, closing the article with ...