Tailor and the Mouse, The

DESCRIPTION: "There was a tailor had a mouse, Hey diddle inkum feedle, They lived together in one house...." The mouse eats the tailor's hat. The mouse grows ill; the tailor tries to save it, then puts it in a pie. The mouse escapes and dies. The tailor finds another
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould and Sharp, English Folk-Songs for Schools)
KEYWORDS: burial death humorous animal food clothes escape
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
SongsOfAllTime, pp. 68-69, "The Tailor and the Mouse" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, TAILMOUS*
Roud #16577
NOTES [33 words]: Roud lumps this with "Tailor and Louse." Obviously there are similarities in both plot and lyrics -- this is probably a derivative of that -- but I'd consider them clearly separate as they stand. - RBW
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