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''But I went wrang and play'd the fule,''<br> | ''But I went wrang and play'd the fule,''<br> | ||
''And married with a shoemaker.''<br> | ''And married with a shoemaker.''<br> | ||
''Shoemaker, leather cracker,''<br> | ''Shoemaker, leather cracker,''<ref>Fr. John Quinn points out the rhyming spelling of this line, "Shoemakker", to rhyme with "leather cracker." </ref><br> | ||
''With all his stinking, dirty water,''<br> | ''With all his stinking, dirty water,''<br> | ||
''I wish a thousand deaths I'd died''<br> | ''I wish a thousand deaths I'd died''<br> | ||
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SHOEMAKER [2], THE. English, Air (2/4 time). England, Northumberland. F Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The song relates a wife's lament at the choice of a husband:
My mother sent me to the school,
To learn to be a stocking knitter,
But I went wrang and play'd the fule,
And married with a shoemaker.
Shoemaker, leather cracker,[1]
With all his stinking, dirty water,
I wish a thousand deaths I'd died
Ere I had wed a shoemaker. ..... [Bruce & Stokoe]
The song was also printed in William Gillies Whittaker's North Countrie Songs (1921).
- ↑ Fr. John Quinn points out the rhyming spelling of this line, "Shoemakker", to rhyme with "leather cracker."