Live mixing from MES actually made sense, too. (in a rub-a-dub style ...).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference

The old staid rub-a-dub of the English drummer is giving place to the stirring French rat-a-plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

A little French drummer, singing to his rub-a-dub, and the agreeable yell of a dog, complete the vocal performers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference

As Yuill spoke the quick rub-a-dub of a drum was heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Minister] Reference

I accept, praying he can 'rub-a-dub' so that I am not disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamaica - Full Feed] Reference

"Fool!" thought the Fire-drum; but it only said, "Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference

Ten Hungarian artists reworking modern roots, dancehall and rub-a-dub to their own ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pestiside.hu] Reference

Nevertheless they are toys, and in the hands of boys and girls, the drum goes "rub-a-dub," the horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinese Boy and Girl] Reference

The men, shut up in the house, hew and slash with their swords right and left to the clash of gongs and the rub-a-dub of drums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

In fact this noise-making twain are the two sticks of a drum, keeping up what Daniel Webster called 'The rub-a-dub of agitation.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference

Zeebo and Roots skipped and hopped in a rub-a-dub dancehall style while bassist Ashish Vyas bounced and shimmied across the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

In fact this noise-making twain are the two sticks of a drum for keeping up what Daniel Webster called "the rub-a-dub of agitation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

Anon it swelled louder: the unmistakable "Dub! dub! rub-a-dub! dub!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference

A rub-a-dub, just relaxin’ in the tub hopin dat teh tiem line wuz right.    From Wordnik.com.  [prehistoric trilobites - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

In fact, this noise-making twain are the two sticks of a drum for keeping up what Daniel Webster called 'the rub-a-dub of agitation.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years] Reference

In fact, this noise-making twain are the two sticks of a drum for keeping up what Daniel Webster called 'the rub-a-dub of agitation.'”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01]

Daniel Webster called 'The rub-a-dub of agitation.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference

"O rub-a-dub, dub!" said Wolf, squeezing the water out of his hair, as he trotted along; "I am glad to be away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Thread A Story for the Young] Reference

Saturday afternoons, they marched up and down the street, past Mr. Lee's, beating a drum, and singing, "rub-a-dub, dub! rub-a-dub, dub!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnie's Pet Parrot] Reference

Weve got to love and rub-a-dub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billion Dollar Baloney] Reference

Beating rub-a-dub.    From Wordnik.com.  [L'Assommoir] Reference

rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub!.    From Wordnik.com.  [New National First Reader] Reference

Beating rub-a-dub -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [L'Assommoir] Reference

For a noisy rub-a-dub.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

What rub-a-dub is that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

I am studying rub-a-dub!.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 paragraphs to explain my disease plus: Love a Puffin, Masturbate and living.] Reference

"Weve got to love and rub-a-dub.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billion Dollar Baloney] Reference

A rub-a-dub, just relaxin’ in the tub.    From Wordnik.com.  [THIS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

But rub-a-dub, rub-dub, hey-up, halloo!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Thread A Story for the Young] Reference

Oh, rub-a-dub, rub-dub, hey-up, halloo!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Thread A Story for the Young] Reference

rub-a-dub, rub-a-dub, with the drummers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old King Coul (3)] Reference

Hey, rub-a-dub, dub! here come the boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Kitty's Stories] Reference

Oh, rub-a-dub, rub-dub, hey-up, halloo! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Thread A Story for the Young] Reference

Props to http://www. rub-a-dub.blogspot.com/.    From Wordnik.com.  [ninth circle] Reference

The drums were beating, "rub-a-dub-dub, rub-a-dub.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm] Reference