Little Tommy Tucker

DESCRIPTION: "Little Tom(my) Tucker sings for his supper. What shall he eat? (White/Brown) bread and butter. How will he cut it without any knife? How will he marry without a wife?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1744 (Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, according to Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: music food marriage
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 519, "Little Tommy Tucker" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #5, p. 123 "(Little Tom Tucker)"
Jack-PopGoesTheWeasel, p. 114, "Little Tommy Tucker" (1 text)
Dolby-OrangesAndLemons, p. 81, "Little Tommy Tucker" (1 text)
Roud #19618
NOTES [43 words]: The unprovable Katherine Elwes Thomas, The Real Personages of Mother Goose, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1930. p. 103, associates this with Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, but the only evidence for this is the first name "Tom" and Thomas's fevered imagination. - RBW
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