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|title=There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

|author=Simms Taback

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=32

|publisher=Viking Children's Books

|date=September 1997

|isbn=0670869392

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Please tell me you've heard of Burl Ives. Please! Just in case you haven't, he was a folk singer mostly known for his renditions of traditional childrens songs. Super, they are. However he was also a Broadway star and perhaps most famously a film star. He was Daddy Rufus in The Big Country, for example, you know - super speech at the party, shoots his own son, Chuck and Gregory Peckory have a big fight. He was also a great friend of John Steinbeck, travelling chronicler of dust bowl America. Burl Ives, that's him. Anyway, I digress, sorry, we're on childrens folk songs and more specifically a particular childrens folk song, writer unknown as usual, made famous by Burl Ives in his musical guise: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly.

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