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EL ZAPATERO by ANONYMOUS

First Line: I SPOKE TO A SHOEMAKER
Last Line: BUT NOT THE DUCK-BILL TOE
Subject(s): SHOES;WEST (U.S.); BOOTS;SNEAKERS;SHOEMAKERS;SOUTHWEST;PACIFIC STATES;
I SPOKE to a shoemaker
For to make me a pair of shoes-es,
With the toes all nicely rounded
Like a duck's bill or a goose's.

Confound that old shoemaker,
How he fooled me, though!
He made me up the shoeses,
But not the duck-bill toe!

Confound that old shoemaker,
How he fooled me, though!
He made me up the shoeses,
But not the duck-bill toe!



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