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    The document tells the story of an old lady who swallows increasingly large animals, from a fly to a horse, in an attempt to catch the smaller animals she had previously swallowed. Each verse describes a new animal she swallows and explains she did so to catch the one before it, until in the end she swallows a horse and dies.

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    The document tells the story of an old lady who swallows increasingly large animals, from a fly to a horse, in an attempt to catch the smaller animals she had previously swallowed. Each verse describes a new animal she swallows and explains she did so to catch the one before it, until in the end she swallows a horse and dies.

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    The document tells the story of an old lady who swallows increasingly large animals, from a fly to a horse, in an attempt to catch the smaller animals she had previously swallowed. Each verse describes a new animal she swallows and explains she did so to catch the one before it, until in the end she swallows a horse and dies.

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    THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY

    There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.


    I don't know why she swallowed that fly,
    Perhaps she'll die.

    There was an old lady who swallowed a


    spider.
    That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside
    her.
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
    But I don't know why she swallowed that fly
    Perhaps she'll die.
    There was an old lady who swallowed a goat.
    There was an old lady who swallowed a bird. Just opened her throat and swallowed a
    How absurd, to swallow a bird! goat!
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider She swallowed the goat to catch the dog
    That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
    her. She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
    But I don't know why she swallowed that fly That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside
    Perhaps she'll die her.
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
    There was an old lady who swallowed a cat. But I don't know why she swallowed that fly
    Imagine that, she swallowed a cat. Perhaps she'll die.
    She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
    That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
    her. She swallowed the cow to catch the goat
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. She swallowed the goat to catch the dog
    But I don't know why she swallowed that fly She swallowed the dog to catch the cat
    Perhaps she'll die. She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
    There was an old lady who swallowed a dog. That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside
    What a hog! To swallow a dog! her.
    She swallowed the dog to catch the cat She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
    She swallowed the cat to catch the bird But I don't know why she swallowed that fly
    She swallowed the bird to catch the spider Perhaps she'll die.
    That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside
    her. There was an old lady who swallowed a
    She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. horse
    But I don't know why she swallowed that fly She's dead, of course.
    Perhaps she'll die.

    There was an old man with a beard


    Who said, ‘This is what I feared!’
    Two owls, a hen, four larks and a wren
    Have all made their nest in my beard!

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