Good Horses, Bad Horses

Bell horses, bell horses,
What time of day,
One o’clock, two o’clock,
Three and away.

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  • bibalu says:
    April 16, 2009 at 6:43 AM

    Children chanted this rhyme in Great Britain to start races.
    A variant of the last line is “Time to away”.

    Below are two versions of this rhyme from The Little Mother Goose (1912), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, and printed in the US:

    Bell-horses, bell-horses,
    What time of day?
    One o’clock, two o’clock,
    Off and away.

    and

    Good horses, bad horses,
    What is the time of day?
    Three o’clock, four o’clock,
    Now fare you away.

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