Question: Alan Mills composed the classic folk song that tells the story of what? 
Sentence (from "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"): The absurdity stems from the increasingly improbable solutions that only worsen the initial problem and are more likely to cause the woman's death: the logic of swallowing of even more animals of preposterous sizes without dying, contrasted with the expected, matter-of-fact recounting of her death from swallowing an animal larger than herself, when in fact the swallowing of any animal as a solution was absurd.
Relevant evidence: No