Ticky-Tack-Too

DESCRIPTION: "Ticky-tack-too, tack-too, Ticky-tack-too, tack-tay"(x2)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin)
KEYWORDS: nonballad nonsense
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin 186, "Ticky-Tack-Too" (1 short text)
Roud #837
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Rick Rick Toe" ("Tic Tac Toe" lyric)
cf. "Tic-Tac" ("Tic Tac Toe" lyric)
cf. "The Cobbler (III)" ("Tic Tac Toe" lyric)
NOTES [84 words]: The current description is all of the OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin fragment.
Roud puts the OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin fragment with "The Shoemaker" (I).
I think a better fit is Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 "Rap-a-tap-tap-tap, ticky-tack-too, This is the way to make a shoe"(2x).
OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin has it as "a cobbler's song" with a BBC recording by Mary Murphy, in May 1953, which -- like "The Cobbler" (I) -- is Roud #837. - BS
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File: OCC186

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