My Pony Boy

DESCRIPTION: "Pony (boy/girl), pony boy, Won't you be my (pony/tony) boy, Here we go, riding slow, all across the plain. Marry me, carry me, far away with you, Giddyap, giddyap, giddyap, WHOA, my pony boy" (as the adult bounces the child on the knee)
AUTHOR: Words: Bobby Heath / Music: Charley O'Donnell (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (musical "Miss Innocence," according to Wikipedia)
KEYWORDS: playparty horse | knee dandling
FOUND IN: US(NE)
RECORDINGS:
Judy Cook, "Pony Boy" (Piotr-Archive #271, recorded 09/27/2022)
Ada Jones, "My Pony Boy" (Victor 16356, 1909)
Peerless Quartet, "My Pony Boy" (Columbia 713, 1909)
Jane Prentice, "Pony Girl" (Piotr-Archive #100, recorded 03/08/2022)
NOTES [59 words]: This, according to the sheet music, is a complete song by Heath and O'Donnell, beginnin "Way out west, in a nest from the rest, dwelt the bestest little Bronco Boy" -- but it appears that the only part that has gone into tradition is the chorus (which is the basis of the quoted description). This seems to have been widely used as a bouncing song. - RBW
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File: DPio100

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