"Taffy was a Welshman" is an English language nursery rhyme which was popular between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19237.[1]
^"Roud Folksong Index S377993 Taffy was a Welshman". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. English Folk Dance and Song Society. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
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