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Thread #79642   Message #1445980
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
29-Mar-05 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: There was an old woman tossed up in a...
Subject: Lyr Add: AN OLD WOMAN
The rhyme in Opie, Iona and Peter, 1955, "The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, p. 70:

Lyr. Add: AN OLD WOMAN

There was an old woman tossed up in a basket,
Seventeen times as high as the moon;
Where she was going I couldn't help but ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
Old woman, old woman, old woman quoth I,
Where are ypi going to up so high?
To brush the cobwebs off the sky!
May I go with you? Aye, by-and-by.a