I remember singing ‘Old MacDonald had a farm’ at primary school, with everyone standing in a big circle. Everytime a new verse was sung a person was chosen to stand in the middle. By the end, half the class were in the middle!

It was the first song that my child started to sing. Well I say started, because all he managed was EE II EE II OOOH. He loved it, and loved all the different animal noises.

At nursery, the leader asked for the children to shout out the next animal. She got very stuck when aliens, and dinosaurs were called for!    

There seem to be several ways of singing this rhyme, the simpler (much easier way) is one animal for each verse. The version I like is as follows, by the end ALL the animals have a turn in the last verse!

Old MacDonald had a farm – the words

Old Macdonald had a farm
Ee-eye, ee-eye, oh
And on that farm he had a duck
Ee-eye, ee-eye, oh
With a quack, quack here
And a quack, quack there
Here a quack, there a quack
Everywhere a quack, quack
Old Macdonald had a farm
Ee-eye, ee-eye, oh

Old Macdonald had a farm
Ee-eye, ee-eye, oh
And on that farm he had a cow
Ee-eye, ee-eye oh
With a moo, moo here
And a moo, moo there
Here a moo, there a moo
Everywhere a moo, moo
Quack, quack here
And a quack quack there
Here a quack, there a quack
Everywhere a quack, quack
Old Macdonald had a farm
Ee-eye, ee-eye, oh

Old Macdonald had a farm
Ee-eye, ee-eye, oh
And on that farm he had a … (add an animal at each verse)

Old MacDonald had a farm – the song

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