Tickle My Toe

DESCRIPTION: In successive verses of this bawdy cumulative song, the singer lays his finger or touches his lady friend on the toe, knee, thigh, "funny thing," etc. With each he asks what it is and she gives a nonsensical reply.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1859? [not later than 1867] (Chappell)
KEYWORDS: bawdy cumulative
FOUND IN: US(So) Ireland Britain(England(South))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Reeves-TheEverlastingCircle 89, "Mathew the Miller" (1 text)
Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms I, pp. 545-551, "Tickle My Toe" (5 texts, 1 tune)
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, p. 750, "The Corn Grinds Well" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #1050
RECORDINGS:
Pat MacNamara, "I Left My Hand" (on IRClare01)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Gently Johnny My Jingalo"
cf. "A-Roving" (plot, such as it is)
cf. "Baltimore (Up She Goes)" (theme)
cf. "Yo Ho, Yo Ho" (plot)
NOTES [43 words]: Legman offers substantial notes on the history of this song in Randolph/Legman-RollMeInYourArms I. - EC
It can, obviously, be difficult to tell this from "A-Roving" and, especially, "Yo Ho." The reader is strongly advised to check that song as well as this. - RBW
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