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"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (sometimes shortened to Old MacDonald) is a traditional children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer and the various animals he keeps. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. For example, if the verse uses a cow as the animal, then "moo" would be used as the animal's sound.
The treatment is very light and poppy. The clever use of synthesisers makes it seems as if there is a whole orchestra present at times. Tim takes the lead on most songs. "Old MacDonald" and "Bobby Shaftoe" are given country-and-western treatments. John Kirkpatrick takes the lead vocals on "Little Bo Peep". Melanie Harold leads on "Bobby Shaftoe".
The McDonnell Farm is a 1943 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 83 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of The Phillips Collection since 1944. [ 1 ]
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" is a science fiction short story by American writer Mike Resnick, published in 2001. [1] The story is about a reporter who visits a farm where millions of genetically engineered animals are raised to help alleviate the world's food shortage. What he finds there is both brilliantly wonderful and tragically disturbing.
Donald Duck works as a farmer on a farm. He is first seen feeding the animals whilst singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". After finishing his song, Donald then goes to look for Clementine the cow to milk. He soon finds her up in the tree eating leaves from a branch and Donald calls Clementine to come down and says good morning to her.
The 'Howglen' described in the novel is probably a reference to George MacDonald's childhood home in Huntly, Scotland, 'The Farm.'The 'Glamour' river, on which the town of the novel is situated, has been immortalized in the names of modern-day streets in Huntly, as well as a children's park near the site of the old MacDonald family Mill.
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
Shefford's secondary school, later a middle school (for pupils aged 9–13), was named after the poet. [13] In 2000 the Robert Bloomfield Society [14] was founded to promote awareness of his life and work and has encouraged scholarly publications relating to him. A revised and enlarged selection of his poems was published by Trent Editions in 2007.