| "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" | |
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| Song by Burl Ives | |
| Language | English |
| Released | 1953 |
| Genre | Children's rhyme, nonsense song |
| Label | Brunswick Records |
| Songwriter(s) | Rose Bonne and Alan Mills |
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| "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" on YouTube | |
"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 Fly". An early documentation of the story appears in English author Dorothy B. King's 1946 book Happy Recollections.