The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Nursery Rhyme

Old Mother Hubbard,
Went to the cupboard,
To fetch her pet cobra a toad,
When she got there,
The cupboard was bare,
The old bat shoulda knowed.

Submitter comment:

Heard on radio WJW, Cleveland, Ohio, by the informant. It is reputedly an original by a disk jockey, Mad-Daddy (Alan Freed) and was well known by Cleveland teenagers in 1957.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; RENO HALL ; DETROIT