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There Was An Old Lady

 
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. 
I don't know why she swallowed a fly. 
I guess she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider 
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled insider her. 
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. 
I don't know why she swallowed a fly. 
I guess 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 
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled insider her. 
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. 
I don't know why she swallowed a fly. 
I guess she'll die.

[Continue verses.] 
Cat . . . Imagine that! She swallowed a cat. 
Dog . . . What a hog! She swallowed a dog. 
Goat . . . She opened her throat and in walked a goat. 
Cow . . . I don't know how she swallowed that cow.

There was an old lady, she swallowed a horse. 
She DIED of course!