the song old macdonald had a farm was written in 1917.
when was the song old macdonald had a farm written?
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in the 1917 book "tommy's tunes", a collection of world war i era songs by f. t. nettleingham, the song "ohio" has quite similar lyrics—though with a slightly different farmer's name and refrain:





















































this version lists seven species of animal: some dogs (bow-wow), some hens (cluck cluck), some ducks (quack quack), some cows (moo moo), some pigs (grunt grunt), some cats (meow meow), and a donkey (hee-haw).





















































the traditional ballad index consider the "tommy's tunes" version to be the earliest known version of "old macdonald had a farm", though it cites numerous variants, some of them much older.
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old macdonald duck is an animated cartoon from 1941 in which donald duck is a farmer. donald is disturbed by an insect when he tries to milk the cow clementine.





















































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donald duck works as a farmer in a farm.y





















































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the cartoon takes its title from the children's song old macdonald had a farm that donald sings while feeding his animals. later on, while milking clementine, donald sings also the american folk ballad oh my darling, clementine.
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