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My Favourite Poem - Paula
Parker
| Title: |
Poor Old Lady
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| Author: |
Unknown
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| Recommended age range: |
4 upwards |
| This poem can be found
in: |
The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems
BBC ISBN 0563537744 |
| My response to this poem: |
Also known as ‘There was an Old Lady who
Swallowed a Fly’. I have used this as part of a rhyme-sack
very successfully. Children really enjoy the repetitive
nature of the poem and as a child I was fascinated by the idea of
being able to swallow all the animals.
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There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she'll
die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tiggled inside her;
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll
die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll
die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;
Fancy that to swallow a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll
die!
There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;
What a hog, to swallow a dog;
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll
die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow;
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll
die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse...
She's dead, of course!