There was an old woman tossed up in a basket

18th‐century nursery rhyme
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"There was an old woman tossed up in a basket"@en
skos:altLabel "Old woman whither so high"@en
"The Flight of the Old Woman Who Was Tossed Up in a Basket"@en
"The Song of The Old Woman that was toſs’d in a Blanket"@en
"The Song of the Old Woman That Was Toss’d in a Blanket"@en
"There was a wee wifie row’t up in a blanket"@en
"There was an old woman toſs’d in a blanket"@en
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wdt:P1343 The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
Infant Inſtitutes
wdt:P1433 Mother Goose’s Melody
Christmas Box
Juvenile Amuſement
wdt:P144 Lillibullero
wdt:P1476 "There was an Old Woman"@en
wdt:P1552 traditional folk song
wdt:P1558 moderato
wdt:P1625 Lillibullero
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wdt:P31 musical work/composition
nursery rhyme
bagatelle
wdt:P407 English
wdt:P495 Kingdom of Great Britain
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wdt:P7081 "There was an old woman tossed up in a basket, / Seventeen times as high as the moon; / 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! / May I go with you? / Aye, by‐and‐by."@en
"There was an old woman toſs’d in a blanket, / Seventeen times as high as the moon ; / But where ſhe was going no mortal could tell, / For under her arm ſhe carried a broom. / Old woman, old woman, old woman, ſaid I / Whither, ah whither, ah whither ſo high ? / To ſweep the cobwebs from the ſky, / And I’ll be with you by and by."@en
wdt:P7937 song
wdt:P86 Samuel Arnold
James Hook
Henry Purcell
wdt:P921 sweeping
witch
broom
spider web
basket
old woman
flight
blanket
task
wdt:P953 <https://www.americanliterature.com/author/mother-goose/nursery-rhyme/there-was-an-old-woman-tossed-up-in-a-basket>
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<https://www.surfnetkids.com/early/16773/there-was-an-old-woman-tossed-up-in-a-blanket>
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