A Wise Old Owl
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| "A Wise Old Owl" | |
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The US wartime poster using the rhyme | |
| Nursery rhyme | |
| Songwriter | Edward Hersey Richards |
"A Wise Old Owl" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7734 and in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd Ed. of 1997, as number 394. The rhyme is an improvement of a traditional nursery rhyme "There was an owl lived in an oak, wisky, wasky, weedle."