The Cobbler's Daughter

[LadyGreenleafe]

What a beautiful melody...beautifully sung....and what horrible subject matter! Trailer Trash indeed.

[cjc813]

"My boyfriend's dead and my mom's in prison. But I'm okay with it."

If I didn't know better, I'd say this story came from a trailer park.

[MoonsilverWithdrawn]

@cjc813 I . . . don't think she says 'but it all cool y'all' anywhere in these lyrics. Nor anything meaning that. To me it has always been more the Cobbler's Daughter trying to explain what happened, no emotion one way or another, just how it happened. At least, that's my interpretation.

[2008Sameoldfitup]

nice

[amokreutz]

gooseskinvoice- simply beautyful

[MsJadeHamilton]

Capptures the teenage narrator perfectly. I think I've worn this track out on my copy of 'sleepless'', it's been play so often.

[cyberkid2]

haha the lyrics are quite comical actually

[KateFan]

A cobbler repairs shoes, a shoemaker makes shoes.

[ramsey1946]

The best UK folk singer ever. So natural, so gorgeous. Wonderful Kate. From Peter in Abingdon, Oxford.

[Idolfret2]

I love the happy music after the man's died. It's just contradicting. First heard this in my Music Class.

[chizzieshark]

@Idolfret2 Agreed. The music is so happy but what actually transpires is horrible =/

[well1815]

she is great i wish she come to austraila

[lareinelionne]

It's like she's singing a testimony in court and defending herself

[potomusicfan4ever]

I always listen to this song when I need to smile. Such a sad, funny, great song!

[MileyIchigo]

Heard this in my English class and I was quite interested in it

[dazzajlee]

A cobbler is a shoemaker much like our Kate is a musicmaker.

[UchihaAkaz]

heard this song in my English class and liked it =D

[Boviss1]

This is really like 'Little Beggar Girl' by Richard and Linda Thompson (as was). I think it was on I want to see the bright lights tonight.

Same kind or cruel but amusing tale. Worth a listen - 30 years or so old but still fresh and new, like much of RT's stuff.

[libberochy]

can anyone tell me what a Cobbler's Daughter means? (what does Cobbler mean?)

[EponaHorseGoddess]

Cobbler is an english word (not used a lot nowadays) for a Shoemaker, but one who mends shoes, rather than making them.

[hazzer777]

The daughter of a shoemaker

[MagnusTide1976]

A cobbler is the guy making shoes....the daughter of a cobbler...well, she,s the daughter of the guy making shoes. Sorry, no offence, had to look it myself...;-)

[geriatronix]

A shoe marker or repairer, although here it may be used to symbolize a needy daughter whose parent made minimum wage mending shoes.

[chloelinsey8888]

my bff can sing this soooo nicely shes called Iona Smith shes beautiful !!!!! i love her and this song !! xxx

[StephanusTacitus]

This is indeed grievous sad. Surely can a crueler disappointment be carried to heaven's gates? I trow not.

Why? Why did she lead him to her chamber if she was going to scream because he kissed her? Evil cobbler's daughter. I hope she got trampled to death!

[blackcatphobia]

I have a different interpretation. Being a woman, and knowing all too well the irritation of an unwanted but persistent suitor, it's not at all implausible that she wanted to get him shamed out of the house and out of her life, and it just happened to go horribly wrong.

[StephanusTacitus]

Oh. Okay. I understand that.

[mahogonywhisper]

the way she sings this is so casual, as if killing a boy is perfectly normal... um... woow!

[meeplesquadge]

haha good comment Rusby08! =p

This is one of my faves I think, i spent SO LONG working out the tab on the guitar...some work suffered, but who cares, its Kate! =D

[mahogonywhisper]

great song

[Sunshinie94]

I love this song! Kate is so amazing! I've been going to see her in concert nearly every year since i was about 5, i'm 14 now!

[gotears2listen]

love kate's phrasing on this - just great!

[1928374365]

great song as you would expect from Kate. She just gets better and better.

[texenstar]

oo i have a video of my singing this song :P

this women is my idol

[Rusby08]

She is great =D