<Dd> Here a bow, there a wow, everywhere a bow - wow . </Dd> <P> 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). </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> Two of these 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: </P>

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