I Had a Little Shoe and It Was Blue

DESCRIPTION: "I had a little shoe and it was blue, It died last night at a quarter past two, I put it in a coffin, It fell through the bottom, My little shoe, dressed in blue"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling)
KEYWORDS: clothes death | shoe blue coffin
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 26, "(I had a little shoe and it was blue)" (1 text)
Roud #20059
File: PKKB026B

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