old macdonald

Farm song protagonist

Old MacDonald is the farmer in the children's song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," where each verse introduces a different animal and its sound: With an oink oink here and an oink oink there.

The song is a staple of early childhood, used to teach animal names and sounds.

References to Old MacDonald evoke nursery-rhyme simplicity or farm life generally.

Related

duck · chicken · tractor · hay · oink · moo · quack · cluck · nursery · rhyme · song · sing along · animals · rooster · sheep · baa · neigh · horse

Opposites
agricultural authenticity

old macdonaldsubsistence farmer

Grower producing for household consumption

sharecropper · commercial farmer · John Deere · rancher · Monsanto

Family

oldest, olden, alderman, MacDonald, Donald

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G