A brisk exchange between a customer and a blacksmith shoeing a horse, with a nail-and-hammer rhythm that's made for tapping out with a small fist.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
"Robert Barnes, my fellow fine,
Can you shoe this horse of mine?"
"Yes, good sir, that I can,
As well as any other man;
There's a nail, and there's a prod,
Now, good sir, your horse is shod."
About this rhyme
A little dialogue between a customer and a blacksmith: can you shoe my horse, yes I can, and the shoe goes on. It's a working rhyme built round a real trade, best said with two voices and a tap tap tap on the last line.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition