I Am Woman Tanya Stephens covered the song on her album "Gangsta Blues" in 2004 An instrumental arrangement of the song was played at the 82nd Academy Awards as the exit music for Kathryn Bigelow after she won the Best Director Oscar for the 2009 film "The Hurt Locker", the first time a woman won the award. The soundtrack for "Sex and the City 2 features a performance of "I Am Woman" as sung in film by its stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon in the 2010 film "Sex and the City 2". In 2015, a version was
There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe as she leaves for her honeymoon, or tying shoes to the departing couple's car. Archaeologist Ralph Merifield has pointed out that in Lancashire it was the custom for females who wished to conceive to try on the shoes of a woman who had just given birth. Debates over the meaning of the rhyme have largely revolved around matching the old woman with historical figures, as Peter Opie observed "for little reason other than the size of their families". Candidates include Queen Caroline, the wife of King George II (1683–1760), who had eight children, and Elizabeth Vergoose of Boston, who had