by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
There was an old man
Language: English
There was an old man in a velvet coat, He kissed a maid and gave her a groat, The groat was cracked and would not go. Ah, old man, would you serve me so?
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, verses from a Poetry Bookshop publication, Nurse Lovechild's Legacy.  [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "There was an old man", 1923, published 1924, from Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles, no. 6. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 34