A knee-bouncing rhyme that speeds up with every verse, from a lord's trot to a lady's canter to the footman's breathless gallop to catch up. Built for bouncing a small child faster and faster right to the end.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Here goes my lord
A trot, a trot, a trot, a trot,
Here goes my lady
A canter, a canter, a canter, a canter!
Here goes my young master
Jockey-hitch, jockey-hitch, jockey-hitch, jockey-hitch!
Here goes my young miss
An amble, an amble, an amble, an amble!
The footman lags behind to tipple ale and wine,
And goes gallop, a gallop, a gallop, to make up his time.
About this rhyme
Text confirms lord=trot, lady=canter, and the footman lagging behind 'to tipple ale and wine' before going to gallop.
A knee-ride rhyme, and one of the clearest ones going: each character gets a different pace, a lord's gentle trot, a lady's canter, a footman's flat-out gallop because he stopped for a drink on the way. The rhyme is really just instructions for how fast to bounce.
Change your knee's speed for each line. That's the whole game.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition