Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Music theme
A cumulative verse children's song & nursery rhyme (also listed folk) about animals on MacDonald's farm. Each verse adds an animal & characteristic sound
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Name variations: Deddo Ali, Grandpa Ali, 王老先生有块地, Wáng lǎo xiānshēng yǒu kuài dì, Old Mr. Wang Had Some Land, Piippolan vaarilla oli talo, Grandpa Piippola had a house, Jens Hansen havde en bondegård, Jens Hansen had a farmyard, La Ferme à Mathurin, Mathur
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This song traditionally uses characteristic sounds for the animals. As in, dogs don't bark or even roof, they woof. Lambs baa baa. Cows moo. Pigs oink. Ducks quack. Etc...
The song Ohio, first appeared in the 1917 book, Tommy's Tunes by F. T. Nettleingham and featured the phase, "Old Macdougal had a farm in Ohio-i-o".
An earlier song (1908), The Farmyard (aka: The Merry Green Fields), seems to be very influential and features verses based on animals and their sounds, such as "With a moo moo here and a moo moo there, Here a moo, there a moo, Here a pret-ty moo."
But the earliest known influence is a song called The Kingdom of the Birds (1719). "Booing here, Booing there, Here a Boo, there a Boo, every where a Boo"
The song, Old Missouri, is a variant and focuses on the different parts of a mule rather than different animals and their sounds.
Title and/or lyrics for the tune have been translated to different languages (and cultures):
جدو على;Deddo Ali [Grandpa Ali. Egyptian Arabic]
王老先生有块地;Wáng lǎo xiānshēng yǒu kuài dì [Old Mr. Wang Had Some Land. Canadian, (just kidding) Chinese]
Piippolan vaarilla oli talo [Grandpa Piippola had a house. Finnish]
Jens Hansen havde en bondegård [Jens Hansen had a farmyard. Danish]
La Ferme à Mathurin [Mathurin's Farm. French]
Old MacDonald hat 'ne Farm ['ne is a contraction of eine]. Old MacDonald (untranslated) is the farmer (the rest of the lyrics are literal translations of the English)
לדוד משה הייתה חווה;LaDod Moshe hayta hava[Uncle Moshe Had a Farm. Hebrew]
Nella vecchia fattoria [In The Old Farm. Italian.] Zio Tobia [uncle Tobias], is the farmer.
ゆかいな牧場;Yukai-na Makiba [Happy Farm. Japanese]. Ichiro, Jiro, and Saburo are the three farmers and the theme is just a bit different.
マックのおじさん;Makku no Ojisan [Old man Mac. Japanese]. More like the original
大阪うまいもんの歌;Osaka Umaimon no Uta [Yummy foods in Osaka. Kansai Japanese]. A parody about Osakan foods.
그래 그래서;geulae geulaeseo [So And. Korean] "Old Mr. Park had a farm and animals."
Stary Donald farmę miał [Old Donald had a farm. Polish] or Pan McDonald farmę miał [Mr. McDonald had a farm.
Na quinta do tio Manel [On the farm of Uncle Manel. Portuguese]
Seu Lobato tinha um sítio [Seu Lobato had a place (farm). Portuguese]
O velho McDonald tinha uma fazenda [Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Portuguese]
Svako jutro jedno jaje organizmu snagu daje [One egg per day gives the strength to human organism. Serbian]. A totally different theme for the tune.
En la granja de Pepito/En la vieja factoría [Spanish]
Na kmetiji je lepo [On a farm it is beautiful. Slovene. This is a vulgar drinking song.]
Per Olsson hade en bonnagård [Per Olsson had a farmyard. Swedish]
Ali Baba'nın Bir Çiftliği Var [Ali Baba Has A Farm. Turkish]
This song traditionally uses characteristic sounds for the animals. As in, dogs don't bark or even roof, they woof. Lambs baa baa. Cows moo. Pigs oink. Ducks quack. Etc...
The song Ohio, first appeared in the 1917 book, Tommy's Tunes by F. T. Nettleingham and featured the phase, "Old Macdougal had a farm in Ohio-i-o".
An earlier song (1908), The Farmyard (aka: The Merry Green Fields), seems to be very influential and features verses based on animals and their sounds, such as "With a moo moo here and a moo moo there, Here a moo, there a moo, Here a pret-ty moo."
But the earliest known influence is a song called The Kingdom of the Birds (1719). "Booing here, Booing there, Here a Boo, there a Boo, every where a Boo"
The song, Old Missouri, is a variant and focuses on the different parts of a mule rather than different animals and their sounds.
Title and/or lyrics for the tune have been translated to different languages (and cultures):
جدو على;Deddo Ali [Grandpa Ali. Egyptian Arabic]
王老先生有块地;Wáng lǎo xiānshēng yǒu kuài dì [Old Mr. Wang Had Some Land. Canadian, (just kidding) Chinese]
Piippolan vaarilla oli talo [Grandpa Piippola had a house. Finnish]
Jens Hansen havde en bondegård [Jens Hansen had a farmyard. Danish]
La Ferme à Mathurin [Mathurin's Farm. French]
Old MacDonald hat 'ne Farm ['ne is a contraction of eine]. Old MacDonald (untranslated) is the farmer (the rest of the lyrics are literal translations of the English)
לדוד משה הייתה חווה;LaDod Moshe hayta hava[Uncle Moshe Had a Farm. Hebrew]
Nella vecchia fattoria [In The Old Farm. Italian.] Zio Tobia [uncle Tobias], is the farmer.
ゆかいな牧場;Yukai-na Makiba [Happy Farm. Japanese]. Ichiro, Jiro, and Saburo are the three farmers and the theme is just a bit different.
マックのおじさん;Makku no Ojisan [Old man Mac. Japanese]. More like the original
大阪うまいもんの歌;Osaka Umaimon no Uta [Yummy foods in Osaka. Kansai Japanese]. A parody about Osakan foods.
그래 그래서;geulae geulaeseo [So And. Korean] "Old Mr. Park had a farm and animals."
Stary Donald farmę miał [Old Donald had a farm. Polish] or Pan McDonald farmę miał [Mr. McDonald had a farm.
Na quinta do tio Manel [On the farm of Uncle Manel. Portuguese]
Seu Lobato tinha um sítio [Seu Lobato had a place (farm). Portuguese]
O velho McDonald tinha uma fazenda [Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Portuguese]
Svako jutro jedno jaje organizmu snagu daje [One egg per day gives the strength to human organism. Serbian]. A totally different theme for the tune.
En la granja de Pepito/En la vieja factoría [Spanish]
Na kmetiji je lepo [On a farm it is beautiful. Slovene. This is a vulgar drinking song.]
Per Olsson hade en bonnagård [Per Olsson had a farmyard. Swedish]
Ali Baba'nın Bir Çiftliği Var [Ali Baba Has A Farm. Turkish]
Games by year
The first Old MacDonald Had a Farm video game was released on January 18, 1983.
Platforms
| Atari 2600 |  | 1 |
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