Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

When I was a child, I was bounced on knees and sang a similar verse to the Moly G Buck verse discussed earlier. It went like this:
"Giddyup Giddyup goin' to town. Giddyup Giddyup HORSEY FALL DOWN!"
and as the HORSEY FALL DOWN part is sang, you tip the child over with his or her feet up in the air and your arm behind the head as if the horse fell down.
If you want you can emphasize the HORSEY FALL DOWN! part and jiggle the kid all around. Then you start all over with Giddyup Giddyup goin' to town and the kid gets so excited cause he knows what happens when the horsey goes to town.
Giddyup, I'm sure you know, is a word you say to a horse to tell him to run. I don't have kids of my own yet, but I love playing this game with kids I know. I'm good at it and the kids die laughing!