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Shoeing

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 10 seconds aloud

A brisk verse about shoeing a wild colt and mare, built on hammering, repeated sounds like "here a nail, there a nail." It works nicely as a tapping or clapping rhyme.

From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.

Shoe the colt,
  Shoe the colt,
Shoe the wild mare;
  Here a nail,
  There a nail,
Yet she goes bare.

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

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