Our Boots Are Made of Leather

DESCRIPTION: Our boots/shoes are leather, stockings/socks are silk Our pinafores are white as milk, or I wash myself in milk. We go around until we touch the ground.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (A.E. Gillington, _Old Surrey Singing Games_, according to Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame)
KEYWORDS: clothes playparty
FOUND IN: US Britain(England(Lond))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Opie/Opie-TheSingingGame 49, "Our Boots Are Made of Leather" (1 text, 1 tune)
Brown-MyGrandmothersSongbook 15, "My Shoes Are Made of Spanish" (1 text, 1 tune)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #448, "Our boots are made of Spanish (of leather)" (1 text)
Roud #13171
File: OpGa049

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