"RIDE A COCK-HORSE."

NZ Truth, Issue 76, 1 December 1906, Page 6

"RIDE A COCK-HORSE."

Ride p cock-horse ; To Riccarton coui'bd,To see the fine ladips turn out m great force ; . • ;• " . ' ; Rings- -oh their fitigers, -. And corns on-'iheir toes— : Through -vear> tight boots— as the , ■ •■ booitnaker knows. Rick a cock-gee And come out with me, And look round, the. place and note down what you see ; : "Ladies «nd • " fliers. And feminine dashers, . And the v 1 contingent of chasers and smashers.-' Ri.de a cock-moke— ./. ; Aren't you irryvou spoke." Although, it was pf ohalilv" only , m joke? There's Joe Ward ?nd Plunket There's punter and junket. And sinners and saints— and the wine ! how they drunk it. Rise n cock-nac What a "bag"— with a "bag !" For the Devil (<— yiposing tUere was one! to lag ! / What a l^ul for Below— Is the Carnival Show— * But the Devil is dead, so we've nowhere to go. Ride a cock-horse Out to Riccarton course, To see the fine women and half the fat "force" ; They are all "of the earth," They arrived here by birth. And hare Uiey must stay to their woe or their mirth