<Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> 1794 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Unknown </Td> </Tr> <P> "There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132 . Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683--1760) has also been proposed as the rhyme's subject . </P> <P> The most common version of the rhyme is: </P>

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