Shoe the Colt
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Shoe the Colt
Nursery Rhyme
Shoe the colt,
Shoe the colt,
Shoe the wild mare;
Here a nail,
There a nail,
Colt must go bare.
Notes
Here's a similar rhyme from the same book:
Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare
Shoe the horse, and shoe the mare,
But let the little colt go bare.
Here's a slightly different version from The Real Mother Goose (1916):
Shoe the colt,
Shoe the colt,
Shoe the wild mare;
Here a nail,
There a nail,
Yet she goes bare.
Thanks and Acknowledgements
These rhymes can be found in The Only True Mother Goose Melodies (c. 1843), as can the illustration. Shoe the Colt can also be found in The Nursery Rhymes of England (1843) by James Orchard Halliwell.
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