<Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> 1906 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Unknown </Td> </Tr> <P> "This Old Man" is an English language children's song, counting and nursery rhyme with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3550 . </P> <P> The origins of this song are obscure . The earliest extant record is a version noted in Anne Gilchrist's Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (1937), learnt from her Welsh nurse in the 1870s under the title "Jack Jintle" with the lyrics: </P>

Knick knack paddy whack give a dog a bone song