Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross

Versions of Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross include:

Statue at Banbury Cross, commemorating this nursery rhyme.

"To see what Tommy can buy"

• "Ride a Cock Horse" in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book by Nurse Lovechild (1744)
• "Ride a cock horse" (version 2) in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)

"To see a fine lady upon a white horse"

• "R" in The Alphabet of Old Friends (1874)
• "Ride a cock horse" (version 1) in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895)
• "Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901)
• "Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, 1913)
• "Banbury Cross" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
• "Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918)

See also

• "Banbury cakes and Banbury Cross", an essay by John Timbs that discusses this nursery rhyme