Trot, Trot to Boston

DESCRIPTION: For dandling a baby. "Trot, trot to Boston, Trot, trot to Lynn, Watch out (child's name) That you don't fall in" (at which point one may take the baby off the knee. "Trot, trot... To buy a loaf of bread, Trot, trot, home again, The old wife is dead." Etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1962 (recording, Margaret MacArthur, "Folksongs of Vermont")
KEYWORDS: travel food home horse | trot dandling
FOUND IN: US(MW,NE)
RECORDINGS:
Judy Cook, "Trot, Trot to Boston" (Piotr-Archive #272, recorded 09/27/2022)
NOTES [57 words]: Margaret MacArthur recorded this as a sort of children's medley with "This Is the Way the Ladies Ride." I have yet to find a printed collection of it standing alone, but there are many versions on web sites, with substantial variations using different names for the second town (rarely the first), since the second town is the rhyme word. - RBW
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File: DPio272

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