Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect of German. It's also called Deitsch and Pennsylvania German. The Pennsylvania Dutch dialect is spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch people, which include the Amish and the Mennonites in the US and Canada.

Notes

Additional/alternate Verse:

Reide, reide, Geili
Alli Schtunde en Meili
Marriye welle mer Hawwer dresche
Was Geili Fuder fresse

Translation

Ride, ride, horsey,
Every hour a mile,
Tomorrow we'll thresh oats
That the horsey eats for food.

Another Version:

Reidi, reidi, Geili,
Alle Schtunn en Meili,
Geht's iwwer der Schtumbe
Fallt's Bobbli nunner!

Reidi, reidi, Geili,
Alle Schtunn en Meili,
Es Geili schpringt weck
Fallt's Buweli in der Dreck!

Reidi, reidi, Geili,
Alle Schtunn en Meili,
Geht's iwwer der Schtumbe
Fallscht wie'n alder Lumbe.

Translation

Ride, ride horsey,
Every hour a mile,
It goes over the stump
The baby falls off!

Ride, ride horsey,
Every hour a mile,
The horsey runs away
The little boy falls into the dirt!

Ride, ride horsey,
Every hour a mile,
It goes over a stump
You fall like an old rag.

Game Instructions

Sit the child on your knees and gently bounce him/her up and down in time to the rhyme. Then on the last line of each verse, spread your knees and gently lean the child back towards the floor on the last word.

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Thanks and Acknowledgements

Translated by Monique Palomares.

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