I Had a Little Poney, His Name Was Dapple Grey

DESCRIPTION: "I had a little pony, His name was Dapple Grey, I lent him to a lady To ride a mile away. She whipped him, she slashed him, She rode him through the mire, I would not lend my pony now For all the lady's hire."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1842 (Halliwell), with many undated editions in the decades immediately before that
KEYWORDS: horse commerce injury
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 142, "I had a little pony" (1 text)
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 127, "I had a little pony" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose, pp. 117-118 n. 30, "(I had a little pony)" (1 text, files as a possible variant on "I had a little hobby horse)
Roud #20056
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Had a Little Pony (I)"
cf. "I Had a Little Pony (II)" (lyrics)
cf. "I Had a Little Horse Whose Name Was Jack" (lyrics)
File: KSUC142A

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