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There Was an old Woman

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The famous rhyme about the woman who lived in a shoe and had more children than she knew what to do with. It is one of the best-known verses in the whole Mother Goose collection, though its ending is sterner than most modern bedtime stories.

From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.

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 broth without any bread.
She whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition

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