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"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of Scottish proverbs, [1] which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted. [2] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 20004.
A reference in 1725 to 'Now on Cock-horse does he ride' may allude to this or the more famous rhyme, and is the earliest indication we have that they existed. [2] The earliest surviving version of the modern rhyme in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus, printed in London in 1784, differs significantly from modern versions in that the subject is not a fine lady but "an old woman". [2]
Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross 'Ride a Cock Horse', 'Ride a White Horse to Banbury Cross' Great Britain 1784 [84] The earliest surviving version of the modern rhyme can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus. Ring-a-Ring o' Roses 'Ring Around the Rosie' United Kingdom 1881 [85]
In the 1934 collection American Ballads and Folk Songs, ethnomusicologists John and Alan Lomax give a version titled "All the Pretty Little Horses" and ending: 'Way down yonder / In de medder / There's a po' lil lambie, / De bees an' de butterflies / Peckin' out its eyes, / De po' lil thing cried, "Mammy!"' [5] The Lomaxes quote Scarborough as ...
It is a single quatrain with external rhymes [5] that follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre, which is common in nursery rhymes. [6] The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (London, 1870), as outlined below: [7]
This is the horse and the hound and the horn That belonged to the farmer sowing his corn ... Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes. TwinkleTrax Children's Songs. 2011
"How Many Miles to Babylon" is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 8148. ... If your horse be good and your spurs be bright
Nursery rhymes (15 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Traditional children's songs" ... All the Pretty Little Horses; Alouette (song) Anak Kambing Saya; Animal Fair (song)