Popular Culture
- The nursery rhyme was very popular before the twentieth century, it was sung every day by William Ewart Gladstone to his children as they had "rides on his foot, slung over his knee".
- Roger Daltrey of The Who released a solo album, Ride a Rock Horse, the cover of which featured the singer as a white centaur.
- In the 2011 film "Anonymous", Queen Elizabeth I can be heard singing the final lines of this song while dancing in her chamber.
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