Of Shoemaker John today?
Pretty shoes of red, pretty shoes of black,
Perhaps I’ll give them away!
With a rap, rap, rap, and a tap, tap, tap,
See the Shoemaker work away,
With a rap-a-tap and a rap-a-tap,
Now old Shoemaker John, good day!
—Laura Rountree-Smith
There was a young lady of Ryde,
Whose shoestrings were seldom untied.