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Available Poems in A Book of Nonsense (by Edward Lear )

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  • There was an Old Man in a boat  (Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was an Old Man in a pew  (Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was an old man of the Isles  (Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was an Old Man who said, "How  (Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was an Old Man with a Beard  (Gary Bachlund, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was an Old Man with a flute  (Kelsey Jones, Theron Kirk, Elis Pehkonen, Goffredo Petrassi)
  • There was an Old Man with a gong  (Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Elis Pehkonen, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was an old man with a nose  (Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was an Old Person of Cromer  (John Elenor, Mátyás György Seiber) FIN
  • There was an Old Person of Philae  (Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was a young lady from Norway  (Emma Lou Diemer, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was a Young Lady of Russia  (Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was a Young Lady of Ryde  (Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was a Young Lady of Tyre  (Geoffrey Bush, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, as Karel Drofnatski)
  • There was a Young Lady whose bonnet  (Gary Bachlund, Kelsey Jones)
  • There was a Young Lady whose eyes  (Gary Bachlund, Margaret Ruthven Lang)

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