The shoemaker

Shoemaker, shoemaker, are ye within?
A fal a fall addie fallee!
Hae ye got shoes to fit me so trim
For a kiss in the morning early?
O fair may, come in and see,
A fal a fall addie fallee!
I've got but ae pair and I'll gie them to thee
For a kiss in the morning early.
He's ta'en her in behind the bench,
A fal a fall addie fallee!
And there he has fitted his own pretty wench.
With a kiss in the morning early.

Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Authorship

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
• sometimes misattributed to Victor Neuberg (1873 - 1940)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "The shoemaker", 1922, published 1923, from Lillygay, no. 3. [
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