![[kididdles news]](http://cdn2.kididdles.com/news.gif)
![[download music]](http://cdn.kididdles.com/images/common/download_button.gif)
![[kids songs lyrics home page]](http://cdn2.kididdles.com/lyrics_home_page.gif)
![[index all kids songs]](http://cdn2.kididdles.com/index_all_songs.gif)
![[childrens songs subject index]](http://cdn2.kididdles.com/subject_index.gif)
The Old Woman Tossed Up In a Basket
Written By: Unknown
Adapted By: Terry Kluytmans
Copyright © 2001 KIDiddles.com
There was an old woman
Tossed up in a basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon.
Where she was going
I just had to ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
"Old woman, old woman,
Old woman," said I,
"Please tell me, please tell me,
Why you're up so high?"
"I'm sweeping the cobwebs
Down from the sky,
And I'll be with you
Bye and bye."
Tossed up in a basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon.
Where she was going
I just had to ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
"Old woman, old woman,
Old woman," said I,
"Please tell me, please tell me,
Why you're up so high?"
"I'm sweeping the cobwebs
Down from the sky,
And I'll be with you
Bye and bye."
![[tell a friend]](http://cdn2.kididdles.com/tell_a_friend.png)
![[ReadingTeacher.com]](http://cdn2.kididdles.com/readingteacher_button.png)
![[Reading Lessons]](http://cdn2.kididdles.com/reading_lessons.png)