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.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition