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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Summary

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is a nonsense song[1]. It draws 2,261 Wikipedia views per month (nonsense_song category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly's instance of is recorded as nonsense song[3].
  • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly's instance of is recorded as cumulative song[4].
  • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly was published on January 1, 1961[5].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[6]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 23b9116a-4944-4ae5-8dc9-f554fbffa40d[7]

Why It Matters

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly draws 2,261 Wikipedia views per month (nonsense_song category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [6] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/there-was-an-old-lady-who-swallowed-a-fly}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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