Tom Taits

DESCRIPTION: Dialog: What are you called? Tom Taits. What do you do? Feed sheep and goats. Where do they feed? In the bog. What do they eat? Grass. What do they give? Milk and whey. Who eats it? Tom Taits and I (or, the cat)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1870 (Chambers)
KEYWORDS: farming food dialog animal
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Greig-FolkSongInBuchan-FolkSongOfTheNorthEast #161, p. 2, ("Fa's are ye? I'm Tam Tat's") (1 fragment)
Greig/Duncan8 1634, "Tam Tat's" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Robert Chambers, The Popular Rhymes of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1870 ("Digitized by Google")), pp. 24-25, ("What ca' they you?")
Roud #13068
File: GrD81634

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