When society still gathered around the campfire everything important, everything that we had to know in life was passed on through songs and through storytelling. It is surprizing that we have been able to pass so much information over the decades and centuries. Thanks to the memories of our ancestors we still have knowledge about our past.
Music has long been considered as a tool to help people memorize facts, stories, information and history. Studies have also found that music is a great tool to learn new information not just help us memorize.
And Old Macdonald Had A Farm is a great song to use when your kids want to learn the alphabet or about the animals. It has become so popular a song not only in one small part of a country but many places in the world. This song is also taught in many levels of education such as kindergarten, elementary school. Besides,old macdonald had a farm is shown in various TV series.
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Old Macdonald Had A Farm lyrics differs from one country to another, but the rhythm is still kept. This song is translated into many languages such as Hindi, French, Italian, Turkish, Danish, Chinese, Japanese, etc
Old Macdougal had a farm in Ohio-i-o, And on that farm he had some dogs in Ohio-i-o, With a bow-wow here, and a bow-wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, everywhere a bow-wow.
It has a lot of versions.
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:
Two of these variants were published in Vance Randolph's Ozark Folksongs in 1980. One was "Old Missouri", performed by a Mr. H. F. Walker of Missouri in 1922, a version that names different parts of the mule rather than different animals:
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- Old Missouri had a mule, he-hi-he-hi-ho,
- And on this mule there were two ears, he-hi-he-hi-ho.
- With a flip-flop here and a flip-flop there,
- And here a flop and there a flop and everywhere a flip-flop
- Old Missouri had a mule, he-hi-he-hi-ho.
The earliest version ever known is a number from an opera called The Kingdom of the Birds, published in 1719-1720 in Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy.
In conclusion, Old Macdonald Had A Farm is a well-known song all over the world. It will certainly continue to an indispensable part of each person's childhood.
