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11There was an old woman went up in a basketThere was an old woman lived under a hill,
22Seventy times as high as the moon,And if she’s not gone she lives there still.
33What she did there I could not but ask itThere was an old woman lived under a hill,
44For in her hand she carried a broom.Put a mouse in a bag and went to the mill.
55"Old woman, old woman, old woman," said I,The miller did swear by the point of his knife,
66"Whiter, o whither, o whither so high?"He never took toll of a mouse in his life.
77"To sweep the cobwebs from the sky,
88And I shall be back again by-and-by."There was an old woman and nothing she had,
9And so this old woman was said to be mad.
10She’d nothing to eat and nothing to wear,
11She’d nothing to lose and nothing to fear.
12She’d nothing to ask and she’d nothing to give,
13And when she did die, she’d nothing to leave.
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15There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
16She had so many children she didn’t know what to do.
17She gave them some porridge without any bread,
18Then she borrowed a hammer and knocked them all dead.
19She went to the town to bespeak ‘em a coffin,
20But when she got back they were lying there laughing.
21She went up the stairs to ring the bell
22Then she slipped her foot and down she fell.
23So she got the coffin to herself.
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25There was an old woman tossed up in a basket,
26Seventeen times as high as the moon.
27And where she was going I couldn’t but ask it,
28For in her hand she carried a broom.
29Old woman, old woman, old woman, quoth I,
30Where are you going to, up so high?
31To brush the cobwebs off the sky.

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