Ride a Cock-Horse

Ride a Cock-Horse

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
And she shall have music wherever she goes.

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Award Winning Children's Music Lesson Series

Characters from famous nursery rhymes are recast as hip musicians that introduce your child to the world of musical instruments.  Imagine the Itsy Bitsy Spider as a groovy piano player or the Three Blind Mice as a rock trio and you'll begin to get the idea.  Groove Kid Nation provides a fresh new approach to introducing children to music.

Jasmine the Cat playing flute - Groove Kid Nation

Origin

Several versions of “Ride a Cock-Horse” date back to late-18th-century England, with some evidence suggesting the rhyme may have existed even earlier. Versions were printed in Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book(London, 1744), Gammer Gurton’s Garland or The Nursery Parnassus(1784, London) and Tommy Thumb’s Song Book (1788, U.S.), among others. Although there has been speculation as to the identity of the “fine lady” in line two (Elizabeth I of England? Lady Godiva?), the identification of Banbury Cross as the English town of Banbury in Oxfordshire is one of the only details scholars seem to agree on.

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