where did the song old macdonald come from
Tommy's Tunes
title: Old MacDonald Had a Farm text: variants were published in Vance Randolph's "Ozark Folksongs" in 1980. One was "Old Missouri", sung by a Mr. H. F. Walker of Missouri in 1922, a version that names different parts of the mule rather than different animals: A British version of the song, called "The Farmyard, or The Merry Green Fields," was collected in 1908 from a 74-year-old Mrs. Goodey at Marylebone Workhouse, London, and published in Cecil Sharp's "Collection of English Folk Songs". Perhaps the earliest recorded member of this family of songs is a number from an opera called "The Kingdom of the Birds", published in 1719-1720 title: Old MacDonald Had a Farm text: in Thomas D'Urfey's "Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy": The lyrics have been translated from English into other languages and modified slightly to fit rhythmic and cultural requirements. In most languages below, it is still sung as a children's song to the same tune. The oldest version listed in The Traditional Ballad Index is the Sam Patterson Trio's "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," released on the Edison label in 1925. There have been versions by such well-known artists as Frank Sinatra (Capitol, 1960), Elvis Presley (in his movie "Double Trouble"), Nat King Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald (on her title: Old MacDonald Had a Farm text: Old MacDonald Had a Farm "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" is a children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer named MacDonald (sometimes known as "McDonald" or "Macdonald") and the various animals he keeps on his farm. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. In many versions, the song is cumulative, with the animal sounds from all the earlier verses added to each subsequent verse. For example, the verse uses a cow as an animal and "moo" as the animal's sound. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 745. In title: Old MacDonald Had a Farm text: 1967 Verve album "Whisper Not"). Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album "Join Bing and Sing Along " (1959) A variant was used in a 1952 campaign ad for Adlai Stevenson II's unsuccessful campaign for President with slightly altered lyrics promoting the Stevenson campaign's appeal to farmers. The song is played (with some cast participation) in the 1951 movie "The Lavender Hill Mob". As of September 2018, an animated video containing the song, which was created by ChuChu TV, has received over 1.0 billion views on YouTube. Old MacDonald Had a Farm "Old MacDonald Had a title: Old MacDonald Had a Farm text: 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 (oink oink), 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. Two of these