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Eggs and Marrowbone" (Laws Q2, Roud 183), [1] also known as "There Was An Old Woman", is a traditional folk song of a wife's attempted murder of her husband. Of unknown origins, there are multiple variations. [2] The most well known variations are "The Old Woman From Boston" [3] and "The Rich Old Lady". [4]
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]
The lyric page for the song in the album's liner notes featured a picture of an "elderly woman", but at some point after the first pressings another picture was used in place of the original. Allegedly, the original woman never gave permission for her picture to be used, so Pearl Jam changed the picture to another woman. [ 6 ]
Moritaka's 2013 live album YouTube Public Recording & Live at Yokohama Blitz features "Aru OL ga Obasan ni Natte mo" (あるOLがオバさんになっても, lit. "Even if an Office Lady Becomes an Old Lady"), with the lyrics of this song performed to the tune of her 1990 song "Aru OL no Seishun ~ A-ko no Baai ~ (Moritaka Connection)".
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 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.
A reference in 1725 to 'Now on Cock-horse does he ride' may allude to this or the more famous rhyme, and is the earliest indication we have that they existed. [2] The earliest surviving version of the modern rhyme in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus, printed in London in 1784, differs significantly from modern versions in that the subject is not a fine lady but "an old woman". [2]
"The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" is a song written by Don Altfeld, Jan Berry and Roger Christian, and recorded by 1960s American pop singers Jan and Dean. The song was performed live by The Beach Boys at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium on August 1, 1964, for inclusion on their No. 1 album Beach Boys Concert .