"you listen to it on record, it still holds up quite interestingly as a blues song. It's a Jimmy Reed blues with British pop-group words, which is an interesting combination: a song somewhat stuck in a time warp."" In an AllMusic review, Mike DeGagne describes it as one of their earliest attempts at country music. It features early use of the Rolling Stones' ""ancient form of weaving"" by guitarists Richards and Brian Jones. Jagger performs harmonica on the recording while Jack Nitzsche provides percussion and keyboards. The Stones have performed ""The Spider and the Fly"" live very rarely: they did"
"There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (also known as ""I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"" and ""There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly"") is a children's rhyme and nonsense song of a kind known as cumulative. The song tells the nonsensical story of an old woman who swallowed increasingly large animals, each to catch the previously swallowed animal, but died after swallowing a horse. The humour of the song stems from the absurdity that the woman is able to inexplicably and impossibly swallow"
"rhyme were collected in the journal ""Hoosier Folklore"" in December 1947, beginning respectively ""There was an old lady — she swallowed a fly"", ""Poor little old lady, she swallowed a fly"" and ""A little old lady swallowed a fly"". All three list the progression from fly to spider, bird, cat, dog and cow, finishing with the horse, with variations to the rhymes for each animal. The definitive version was written by Rose Bonne (lyrics) and Canadian/English folk artist Alan Mills and copyrighted in 1952. At that time it was entitled simply ""I Know an Old Lady."" A widely distributed version"
"was an old lady who swallowed a bird; <br>How absurd to swallow a bird! There was an old lady who swallowed a cat; <br>Imagine that! She swallowed a cat! There was an old lady that swallowed a dog; <br>What a hog, to swallow a dog! There was an old lady who swallowed a goat; <br>She just opened her throat and swallowed a goat! There was an old lady who swallowed a cow; <br>I don't know how she swallowed a cow! There was an old lady who swallowed a horse; There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly There Was"
"recording traditional music from Canada, accompanying himself on guitar. His first album, ""Let's Sing a Little"", was released by RCA Victor. He composed the classic folk song ""I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"" (with lyrics by Rose Bonne) which was later recorded by Burl Ives, Peter Paul and Mary and many others. He published a book, ""The Alan Mills Book of Folk Songs and Ballads"", in 1949. His recordings of authentic traditional music were reviewed by Oscar Brand in the ""Saturday Review of Music"", and included in a number of folk music compilation albums. Mills was signed"
"woman, who had no intention of feeding it. After her husband left, she went out fishing. While she was gone, the sparrow got into some starch that was left out and eventually ate all of it. The old woman was so angry upon her return that she cut out the bird's tongue and sent it flying back into the mountains from where it came. The old man went searching for the bird and, with the help of other sparrows, found his way into a bamboo grove in which the sparrow's inn was located. A multitude of sparrows greeted him and"
"a pole used to prevent washing on a line from blowing about too much). The moral of the song is: Now the old woman is dead and gone<br> And the Devil's got her soul<br> Wasn't she a gosh-darn fool<br> That she didn't grab that pole?<br> <br> Eating eggs and marrowbone<br> Won't make your old man blind<br> So if you want to do him in<br> You must sneak up from behind Many of these are available to listen online. Eggs and Marrowbone ""Eggs and Marrowbone"" (Laws Q2, Roud 183), also known as ""There Was An Old Woman"", is a traditional folk"
"a number of other places in South Wales, including Merthyr, Rhondda, Blaina, Caerphilly, Neath, Brecon, Swansea, Newport, Cardiff, and the Wye Valley. Two decades after ""Gwalia Deserta"" was published, Seeger used one part of the work as lyrics for his song after discovering them in a book by Dylan Thomas. The song was first released as part of a suite of songs, including ""Sinking of the Ruben James"" and ""There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"", on Seeger and Sonny Terry's 1958 live album, ""Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry"". The song was also included on Seeger's 1967 compilation"
"(most likely a common lobster) home as a gift for his wife and puts it in the chamber pot. Some time in the night his wife answers a call of nature and the crustacean grabs her private parts. In the ensuing scuffle the husband gets bitten too. ""Johnny Daddlum"" is the Irish version of this song. There are variants in which the coarse language is more clear-cut than in others. In some variants the wife is pregnant, having previously told her husband about her craving to eat crabfish meat. This song has also variants under other names such as ""Old"
"Then cat and bird then veer to the right, and run right off a cliff. take the other route of chase and fall from steep. The worm, seeing this, produces a bugle, and plays the funeral march, then goes into a jazz riff. The worm goes back into his hole, confident that he is rid of the bird; but the bird immediately sticks his head out and swallows, obviously having eaten the worm. The bird then walks off, passing behind a tree. The cat immediately emerges, licking his chops and hiccupping, having obviously eaten the bird. He shows a sign"
"Your stomach turns a slimy green, And pus pours out like whipping cream. You'll spread it on a slice of bread, And that's what you eat when you are dead."" There are a number of variations in the chorus of this song. In late 1950s eastern Washington state, it was sung: The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, The worms play pinochle on your snout. A big black bug with two red eyes, crawls up through your stomach and out through your eyes. Your liver turns to a slimy green, And looks and tastes like whipped cream. Other popular"
"get a worm. But the worm suddenly reverses direction and swallows the bird. Pooch, who is sympathetic for the little fowl, extracts the bird from within the worm. It appears that the young bird is taking lessons from an older bird that's teaching him bird things. The older bird is teaching the young one how to fly by flapping wings. The young bird takes off from a branch, only to drop after only a few seconds. Pooch then helps out by taking feathers from a turkey, and offers them to the young bird. The young bird is able to fly"
"in that it served as a vessel to expose the son's wrongful death. The bird sang this song to different townspeople in order to get gifts that he will later bestow on his sister and father after they heard the bird sing as well. This song fueled the personification of a bird, which naturally does not have the ability to communicate words to humans. The song went like this: Lyrics ""My mother she killed me, My father he ate me, My sister, little Marlinchen, Gathered together all my bones, Tied them in a silken handkerchief, Laid them beneath the juniper-tree,"
"cloak. If he shot among them, one would die and they would drop the cloak that turned out to be a wishing cloak. Furthermore, if he swallowed the heart of the dead bird, he would find a gold coin by his pillow every morning. He went out into the world and came to a castle where an old witch lived with her beautiful daughter. The witch knew about the bird's heart and told her daughter what she must do to steal it. She gave the man a drink, and the bird's heart came up. The daughter swallowed it herself. Then"
"along to the lyrics. After dinner has ended, the mother gets up from the table and retrieves a trifle from a cabinet, which she holds up in front of her face. The camera then gets distorted and jerky, the view filling up with a variety of colorful, loud filters applied to the film. The family looks at the mother with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as the film gets more distorted and layered with effects. As the song ends, the camera cuts back to a clear shot of the worm crawling in the grass again. The song was the"
"""He smacked his lips and then he kissed her,"" ""Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh!"" ""She says if you love me as I love you,"" ""Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh!"" ""No knife can cut our love in two,"" ""Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh!"" ""Oh, Carline, oh, Carline,"" ""Can't you dance the bee line,"" ""Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh!"" Some variants of the song substituted ""pea-vine"" for ""bee line"". Another version included the verse: ""My old missus promise me,"" ""Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh!"" ""When she died she-d set me free,"" ""Old Aunt Jemima, oh! oh! oh!"""
"Listen to the Mocking Bird ""Listen to the Mocking Bird"" (1855) is an American popular song of the mid-19th century. Its lyrics were composed by Septimus Winner under the pseudonym ""Alice Hawthorne"", and its music was by Richard Milburn. It relates the story of a singer dreaming of his sweetheart, now dead and buried, and a mockingbird, whose song the couple once enjoyed, now singing over her grave. Yet the melody is moderately lively. ""Listen to the Mocking Bird"" was one of the most popular ballads of the era and sold more than twenty million copies of sheet music. It"
"Old Folks (1938 song) Old Folks is a 1938 popular song and jazz standard composed by Willard Robison with lyrics by Dedette Lee Hill, the wife and occasional colleague of Billy Hill. The lyrics tell of an old man nicknamed ""Old Folks"" and reference his service in the American Civil War, his habit of smoking with a ""yellow cob pipe"", and the prospect of his death. A 1938 version by Larry Clinton and His Orchestra and vocalist Bea Wain charted at No. 4; around this time it was also recorded by Mildred Bailey and Bing Crosby and performed on radio"
"pianist 'plays by ear'. John feels a 'tug' at his elbow; it's the soda clerk. They 'chew the rag' a while; John eventually hears from the 'grapevine' that Mary is going around with an 'old flame', who is 'connected to the railroad', but is really just 'feeding her a line' as he 'spends his money like water'. John feels 'burned up'. He tries to 'chisel in', the old flame 'gets in John's hair' and John is made to leave. Outside it is 'raining cats and dogs'. He 'feels blue', and 'everything looks black', but he 'carries on'. After moving to"
"Feed the Birds ""Feed the Birds"" is a song written by the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman) and featured in the 1964 motion picture ""Mary Poppins"". The song speaks of an old beggar woman (the ""Bird Woman"") who sits on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, selling bags of breadcrumbs to passers-by for twopence a bag so that they can feed the many pigeons which surround the old woman. The scene is reminiscent of the real-life seed vendors of Trafalgar Square, who began selling birdseed to passers-by shortly after its public opening in 1844. In the"
"Love's Old Sweet Song Love's Old Sweet Song is a Victorian parlour song published in 1884 by composer James Lynam Molloy and lyricist G. Clifton Bingham. The first line of the chorus is ""Just a song at twilight"", and it is sometimes misidentified as such. The song has been recorded by many artists, including John McCormack and Clara Butt. The song is alluded to in James Joyce's ""Ulysses"" as being sung by Molly Bloom. The song was recorded in 1923 for a two-reel short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. It also appeared as the theme in the"
"song is widely known as ""Marrowbones"". ""A similar song, ""Johnny Sands"" (Roud 184), was written by John Sinclair about 1840 and also became popular with local singers."" Herbert Hughes writes that the song is English in origin. The song concerns an old woman who, in one popular version, loves ""her husband dearly, but another man twice as well."" She resolves to kill him, and is advised by a local doctor that feeding him eggs and marrowbone will make him blind. Thus She fed him eggs and marrowbone<br> And made him sup them all<br> And it wasn't too long before<br> He"
"saw the crab shell, and burned it. The princess wept bitterly, but her husband did not return. An old man went to dip some bread in water when a dog stole it from him. He chased after the dog, and found a palace. Twelve eagles flew in and became young men. They toasted the health of some family member -- a father, a mother -- and the last toasted his wife but cursed the mother who burned his shell. The old man heard the princess was ill, and that the only thing that consoled her was hearing stories. He went"
"during a crap game played in the courtyard of Catfish Row. She sings that she will no longer hear his footsteps coming up stairs and that ""ol man sorrow"" will be her companion from now on, telling her she is old. The aria's music and lyrics refer to popular African American spiritual songs and are accompanied by melodic wails which are picked up by the chorus. Stephen Sondheim has expressed his deep admiration for Dubose Heyward's lyrics, writing that, along with ""Summertime"", it creates a distinctive ""informal, uneducated diction and a stream of consciousness"" that defines the verbal style of"
"Old MacDonald Duck Old MacDonald Duck is an animated cartoon from 1941 in which Donald Duck is a farmer. Donald is disturbed by an insect when he tries to milk the cow Clementine. Donald Duck works as a farmer in a farm. The cartoon takes its title from the children's song Old MacDonald Had a Farm that Donald sings while feeding his animals. Later on, while milking Clementine, Donald sings also the American folk ballad Oh My Darling, Clementine. Also, there is once again, ""Turkey in the straw"" as backgroundmusic, as in ""Steamboat willie"" and ""Band concert"". Frames from this"
"any one of them would put out the sorceress's eyes, offering as reward safeguard against the talons of hawks and other -kind and free pass (""carta franca"") ""against muskets, bows, crossbows, and ""bird-lime of the fowlers"". A swallow ("""") volunteers the task, as she nests in the palace and has been irritated by the sorceress's puffs of magic. The sorceress, realizing that being blinded by this darting bird signified her demise, shriekingly departs the city and enters a cave, pounding her head against the wall until she expires. With the sorceress eliminated, the king is able to reclaim his castle."
"The Hearse Song ""The Hearse Song"" is a song about burial and human decomposition, of unknown origin. It was popular as a World War I song, and was popular in the 20th century as an American and British children's song, continuing to the present. It has many variant titles, lyrics, and melodies, but generally features the line ""the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out"", and thus is also known as ""The Worms Crawl In"". While there are reports of the song dating back to British soldiers in the Crimean War (1853–1856), it certainly dates to at least World War"
"1865. The caterpillar is seated on a toadstool and is smoking a hookah; the image can be read as showing either the forelegs of the larva, or as suggesting a face with protruding nose and chin. Eric Carle's children's book ""The Very Hungry Caterpillar"" portrays the larva as an extraordinarily hungry animal, while also teaching children how to count (to five) and the days of the week. One of the most popular, and most often recorded, songs by Sweden's eighteenth-century bard, Carl Michael Bellman, is ""Fjäriln vingad syns på Haga"" (The butterfly wingèd is seen in Haga), one of his"
"Old Shep ""Old Shep"" is a song written and composed by Red Foley and Arthur Williams in 1933, about a dog Foley owned as a child. In reality, the dog, poisoned by a neighbor, was a German shepherd called ""Hoover."" Foley first recorded the song in 1935, and again in 1941 and 1946. The song, later recorded by many artists including Hank Snow and Elvis Presley, became a country classic. Hank Williams 1942, Elvis Presley 1956, Hank Snow 1959, Walter Brennan 1960, Dave Dudley 1965, Johnny Cash 1975, Everly Brothers & Garrison Keillor 1988, Pat Boone 1994, Burton Cummings (as"
"copy back to the village in her place. Elsa stayed many years and learned many marvels, and grew up as the maiden did not. Finally, however, the lady there said that Elsa must leave because she had grown up. Back in the village, the stepmother had beaten the figure until one day a venomous snake came out of its mouth and killed her. Her husband found her, and then that night ate a piece of bread. In the morning, he was as dead as his wife, because it had been in the figure. The lady turned Elsa into a bird,"
"pitched it to his friend Al Trace, bandleader of the Silly Symphonists. Trace liked the song and recorded it. It became a huge hit, most notably with the Merry Macs' 1944 recording. The scholars Iona and Peter Opie have noted that the last two lines of the song appear in an old catch which, when said quickly, appears to be in Latin: <poem>In fir tar is, In oak none is, In mud eels are, In clay none are, Goat eat ivy, Mare eat oats.</poem> They trace the origin of the joke to a manuscript of about 1450 which has ""Is"
"mother the cat died falling from a tall tree.This made the Owl become a single parent. The death causes the Owl great sadness. The money is all spent but the Owl still sings to the original guitar. The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase"
"fed a lot. The old lady puts out fresh sheets of flyers given to her by Patrick. Upon reading them, Gary realizes that SpongeBob truly loves him and wants him back. He tries to leave, but instead of doing that, he ends up going to the closet, filled with empty snail shells. When the old lady tries to feed him again, Gary finds that the old lady most likely has sinister motives—she is possibly trying to fatten and then eat him. He makes his escape, but the old lady chases him out onto the streets. Gary quickly finds one of"