Throw It Out the Window

DESCRIPTION: "Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone When she got there the cupboard was bare So she threw it out the window, The window, the window." Other nursery rhymes may be invoked, always ending with throwing it out the window
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs)
KEYWORDS: derivative animal campsong
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 35-36, "The teacher therefore turned it out"/"Mary had a Little Lamb" (1 partial text plus two parody verses, the first claiming that, if may were alive, she'd have an airplane rather than a lamb, the second being a Mary Had a Little Lamb verse of "Throw It Out the Window")
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 277, "Throw It Out the Window" (notes, plus a partial verse on p. 277)
Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs, p. 119, "Throw It Out the Window" (1 text, 1 tune)
BoyScoutSongbook1997, pp. 24-25, "Throw It Out the Window" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #36138
File: ACSF277T

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