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CoverThe Cobbler's Rhyme [level: Medium]
Robert A. Hawthorne: Bio and other works
RELEASED: March 2026
voicing: SSA | catalog number: SBMP1869 | price: $2.90
accompaniment: piano


This is a whimsical, playful musical setting of a delightful tale in which fairies secretly make shoes at night while the world sleeps. Written for SSA choir with a solo or small group, this piece invites singers to use their imagination and voices in a theatrical, lighthearted way, while giving the pianist an equal role in bringing this fantastical scene to life. Well suited for fall or spring concerts and festivals, this enchanting work is sure to delight performers and audiences alike!


performance by: West Salem High School Asteria and Choir of the Titans Treble Singers (Cole Haole-Valenzuela, Director), guest conducted by Robert A. Hawthorne
Dr. Angela Willoughby, Collaborative Pianist.  [© all rights reserved]


Order CLICK HERE: See and Hear the Complete Score or download a perusal copy: HERE

CLICK HERE: Read the Text or Poem
This text, written in the 19th century, is in the public domain and sourced from: 
The Light Princess and Other Tales
Author: George MacDonald (1824 – 1905), Scotland
Excerpted and adapted from the fairy tale entitled “The Carasoyn,” Chapter XI “The Goblin Cobbler”

  “Cobbler's man
Hammer it, stitch it,
As fast as you can.
The week-day ogre 
Is wanting his boots; 
The trip-a-trap fairy
Is going bare-foots,
Dream-daughter has worn out
Her heels and her toeses,
For want of cork slippers
To walk over noses.
Spark-eye, the smith,
May shoe the nightmare,
The kelpie, and pookie,
The nine-footed bear:
We shoe the mermaids – 
The tips of their tails – 
Stitching the leather
On to their scales. 
We shoe the gruagach,
Clumsy and toeless,
[And] then he goes quiet
As a mole or a moless.
There is but one creature
That we cannot shoe, 
[And] that is the Boneless,
All made of glue."

George MacDonald

CLICK HERE: Choral Tracks (Practice made simple)


The Cobbler's Rhyme choral track bundle contains a part dominant track for each voice part, a balanced voices track, and an accompaniment track if the work is not a cappella (the accompaniment is also included with the part dominant and balanced voices track). Get more information and listen to samples HERE. Please note that the choral score is not included in the bundle and needs to be ordered separately.

Price: $49.99
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West Salem High School Asteria and Choir of the Titans Treble Singers (Cole Haole-Valenzuela, Director), guest conducted by Robert A. Hawthorne
Dr. Angela Willoughby, Collaborative Pianist.

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