There Was an Old Woman

Lyrics

There was an old woman lived under a hill And if she's not gone she lives there still There was an old woman lived under a hill Put a mouse in a bag and went to the mill The miller did swear by the point of his knife He never took toll of a mouse in his life There was an old woman and nothing she had And so this old woman was said to be mad She'd nothing to eat and nothing to wear She'd nothing to lose and nothing to fear She'd nothing to ask and she'd nothing to give And when she did die, she'd nothing to leave There was an old woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children she didn't know what to do She gave them some porridge without any bread Then she borrowed a hammer and knocked them all dead She went to the town to bespeak 'em a coffin But when she got back they were lying there laughing She went up the stairs to ring the bell Then she slipped her foot and down she fell So she got the coffin to herself There was an old woman tossed up in a basket Seventeen times as high as the moon And where she was going I couldn't but ask it For in her hand she carried a broom Old woman, old woman, old woman, quoth I Where are you going to, up so high? To brush the cobwebs off the sky