by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Little Tommy Tucker
Language: English
Little Tommy Tucker Sings for his supper; What shall he eat? White bread and butter. How will he eat it Without e'er a knife? How will he be married Without e'er a wife?
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, verses from a Poetry Bookshop publication, Nurse Lovechild's Legacy. [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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), "Little Tommy Tucker", 1923, published 1924, from Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles, no. 5. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 33