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Sep. 25th, 2003 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleThere was an old woman tossed up in a blanket
Seventeen times as high as the moon.
But where she was going, no mortal could tell it,
For under her arm, she carried a broom.
"Old woman, old woman, old woman," quoth I,
"Whither, ah whither, ah whither so high?"
"To sweep the cobwebs from the sky."
"May I come with you?"
"Aye, by and by."
Seventeen times as high as the moon.
But where she was going, no mortal could tell it,
For under her arm, she carried a broom.
"Old woman, old woman, old woman," quoth I,
"Whither, ah whither, ah whither so high?"
"To sweep the cobwebs from the sky."
"May I come with you?"
"Aye, by and by."
Re: I love this
Date: 2003-09-25 09:34 am (UTC)http://www2.redhawk.org/irish/oneill/waifs/waif-2.abc
Says the quatrain (first four lines) were set to an ancient strain that is used in O'Sullivan's March.
http://babysong.co.kr/There%20was%20an%20old%20woman%20tossed%20up%20in%20a%20blanket..htm
will give you a link to some kind of audio file, but I don't have audio on my 'puter so can't hear it.