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This is a song for playing with young children on your lap…

 

The words to the mp3 below can be found in the Notes.

•  MP3 Recording of This is the Way the Ladies Ride

Notes

Here's a version from Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories, The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 (1917) (This is the version in the mp3 recording):

This is the way the ladies ride-
Saddle-a-side, saddle-a-side!
This is the way the gentlemen ride-
Sitting astride, sitting astride!
This is the way the grandmothers ride-
Bundled and tied, bundled and tied!
This is the way the babykins ride-
Snuggled inside, snuggled inside!

Here's the version from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright:

This is the way the ladies ride,
Tri, tre, tre, tree,
Tri, tre, tre, tree!
This is the way the ladies ride,
Tri, tre, tre, tre, tri-tre-tre-tree!

This is the way the gentlemen ride,
Gallop-a-trot,
Gallop-a-trot!
This is the way the gentlemen ride,
Gallop-a-gallop-a-trot!

This is the way the farmers ride,
Hobbledy-hoy,
Hobbledy-hoy!
This is the way the farmers ride,
Hobbledy-hobbledy-hoy!

Photos & Illustrations

Thanks and Acknowledgements

The first version of this rhyme can be found in Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17), Fun and Thought for Little Folk (1912). The illustrations are from The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).

Recited by Ruth Golding.