Horsey Horsey

Horsey, horsey is a children's song written in 1938 by Paddy Roberts, Elton Box, Desmond Cox and Ralph Butler and which was made popular for Jack Jackson, Billy Cotton and Henry Hall.^[1]

Horsey, horsey don't you stop

let your feet go clippety clop,

So when your tail goes swish

and your wheels go round,

giddy up, we're homeward bound.

Horsey horsey on your way

We’ve got a journey of many a day

So let your tail go swish

and your wheels go round,

giddy up, we're homeward bound."

We ain’t in a hurry

We ain’t in a flurry

And we don’t go tearing down the road

We ain’t in a hustle

We ain’t in a bustle

And we ain’t got a very heavy load

so

I'm gonna take my horse and buggy

I'm gonna travel all around

I wanna hear those feet go clip clop

I wanna see those wheels go round

Horsey, horsey don't you stop

Let your feet go clippety clop,

So let your tail go swish

and your wheels go round,

giddy up, we're homeward bound.

This can be sung as a round.

The opening verse of the song was sung by Ruth Madoc (as Gladys Pugh) in an episode of the BBC TV situation comedy, Hi-de-Hi! ('The Pay Off', 1982), set in a holiday camp in the late 1950s.

Sources

1. NME artists, http://www.nme.com/artists/paddy-roberts, retrieved 17/04/09.