Tap a Tap Shoe

DESCRIPTION: "Tap a tap shoe (or "Tap-a-shoe"), that would I do, If I had but a little more leather; We'll sit in the son till the leader do come, Then we'll tap them both together." A rhyme a mother uses while tapping baby's shoes together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1975 (Deane/Shaw)
KEYWORDS: mother clothes nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Tony Deane and Tony Shaw _The Folklore of Cornwall_, B. T. Batsford, 1975, p. 49, "(Tap-ashoe, that would I do)" (1 short text)
Roud #20472
File: SeSh049B

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