“Old King Cole”

Cultural  

1. A nursery rhyme. Its first stanza reads:

   Old King Cole was a merry old soul,

   And a merry old soul was he;

   He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl,

   And he called for his fiddlers three.

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Example Sentences

I have heard him singing “Old King Cole” and half a dozen more songs, all mixed up in a heap, after a hunt-supper.

From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Holt, Emily Sarah

She might have chanted “Old King Cole” and reaped a houseful of applause.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth