Cobbler, Cobbler, Where's My Shoe

DESCRIPTION: "Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe, Yes, good master, that I'll do; Here's my awl and wax and thread, And now your shoe is quite mended." Or, "...mend my shoe. Have it done by half past two, If half past two is far too late, have it done by half past eight"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1807 (Original Ditties for the Nursery, according to Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: clothes jumprope | cobbler shoe time tools
FOUND IN: West Indies(Jamaica) Britain(Scotland) Ireland
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 103, "Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #585, p. 235, "(Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe)"
Dolby-OrangesAndLemons, p. 29, "Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend My Shoe" (1 text)
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 98, "(Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe)" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #83, "Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Martha Warren Beckwith and Helen Roberts, _Folk-Games of Jamaica_ (Poughkeepsie: Vassar College, 1922 ("Digitized by Internet Archive")) #23 p. 30, "Hunt the Slipper" (1 text, 1 tune)
Iona Opie, _Ditties for the Nursery_, Oxford University Press, 1954, 1959 (new edition of "Original Ditties for the Nursery," c. 1805), p. 38, "Cobbler, Cobbler" (1 text)
Roud #12749
NOTES [37 words]: It appears, from Halliwell, that this was a song used to induce children to put on their shoes. The Opies suggest a connection with the "Hunt the Slipper" game, and obviously the Beckwith/Roberts title supports this. - RBW
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