by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
There was an old woman
Language: English
There was an old woman went up in a basket Seventy times as high as the moon, What she did there I could not but ask it For in her hand she carried a broom. "Old woman, old woman, old woman," said I, "Whiter, o whither, o whither so high?" "To sweep the cobwebs from the sky, And I shall be back again by-and-by."
Text 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 woman", 1923, published 1924, from Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles, no. 11. [text verified 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Richard Rodney Bennett.
Set in a modified version by Carol Barratt.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 64