With all the information posted above, I think we should have a post with corrected lyrics. Here's what I glean from the recording, and from the posts above:

THE LITTLE SHOEMAKER
Sung by The Gaylords

English words by Geoffrey Clarmont Parsons, Nathan Korb, and John Turner, 
Phillips 
Music by Rudi Revil


Peaked at # 2 in 1954


Tap, tap, stitch and tap
,
Make me a pair of shoes



Le scarpine per ballare, ballare
Balleremo tutto il dì
Le scarpine per ballare, ballare
Balleremo ancor così

In the shoemaker's shop this refrain would never stop

As he tapped away, working all the day.

At his bench, there was he, just as busy as a bee,

Little time to lose with the boots and shoes.


But his heart went "pop" inside the little shop

When a lovely girl set him all awhirl.

She had come to choose some pretty dancing shoes

And he heard her say in a charming way,



"Shoes to set my feet a-dancing, dancing,

Dancing, dancing all the day.

Shoes to set my feet a-dancing, dancing,

Dancing all my cares away.



Then he tapped and he stitched, for his fingers were bewitched,

And he sewed a dream into every seam,

Making shoes, oh, so neat, just like magic on her feet,

And he hoped she'd know that he loved her so.


But she danced, danced, danced, as though she were entranced,

Like a spinning top all around the shop.

On her dainty feet she whirled into the street

And he heard her say as she danced away,


(CHORUS - Italian, then English)

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Notes from the YouTube Recording of the 1954 Gaylords Version (2:36 minutes): Originally a French tune called "Le Petit Cordonnnier." French was not the chosen language for the one verse in the tune where the boys sang in a different language, however. No, they were Italian fellows and most of their songs contains a verse of Italian.Wonder how that would work today.
Hugo Winterhalter also recorded this with his orchestra with a "friend." Of course, we all knew it was Eddie Fisher but his name did not appear on the label. Winterhalter's version got as high as #9 on Billboard's charts.

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Notes from the YouTube Recording of the "Original" (?) Gaylords Version (2:16 minutes): "The Little Shoemaker" was adapted from a French song entitled "Le petit cordonnier," by Rudi Revil. English lyrics were later added, and the best-selling version of this song was recorded by The Gaylords and was a hit for most of the summer of 1954. At about the same time a recording by Petula Clark became her first chart hit in the U.K. The Gaylords would have several more hits before breaking up and becoming just a duo billed as "Gaylord and Holiday". This recording became so popular with kids that even the Captain Kangaroo tv show used it for several segments during its morning run in the 50's.

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