Embarrasing moment on a hack today! :o

Nice to know I'm not alone lol
Dont know what I was singing now, I have different songs in my head every hour, but I remember singing while riding and a bike snook up behind me! Made me jump and then made me cringe that he'd heard me
 
I sing too- don't care who hears? If they laugh I ask if they have any requests?!

I also get my daughters to sing if they or the pony seems a bit tense- it works a treat.
 
i have sung 'simply the best' to my old mare! who really was, simply the best! Brings back so many good memories of our solo hacks!
RIP darling girl!

My 'new' boy ive had him two years now but i dont sing to him, mainly because we are always in company!
 
Have a look at Dominick the Christmas donkey by johnny depp. Can't post the link from YouTube. The beat would fit in nicely for a fast trot. Had a listen to the Hippo song .very funny.
 
Love this thread, i've been caught bellowing out "how much is that doggy in the window", its our yard choice of napping/panicking/getting tense song, we used to tell the kids to sing it when they got worried, but now the adults use it too :-)
 
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Have been caught singing Kumbaya by the farmer whose land the yard is on!
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This was one of my first pony's favourite songs to sing (I honestly could say he enjoyed it, maybe like me he was tone deaf?! His ears would twitch and he would track-up lovely, prancing along like the fairy he was!), along with I Danced in the Morning! I swear we must of looked so strange to all the people who caught me in the act with my *horrendous* singing at full volume, luckily they seemed to think it's a novelty finding a 10-12 year old casually belting it out for the pure joy of living? My fave time for a sing-a-long was either really early morning or dusky evening, 'cause it just seemed so peaceful (to me at least, maybe not to the surrounding creatures!):)
 
i sing dont worry about a thing, (will smith sings it on i am legend) in the roughest of our local accents and i sound stupid but it puts my stressy mare to sleep and lots of other songs dont work. also my mums got really good at copying it when i cant be there and the mare needs a chill out.
 
When I was a child I always used to sing 'Horsey, horsey don't you stop, just let your feet go clippity clop. Your tail goes swish and the wheels go round, Giddy-up! We're homeward bound!'.

Elliebrewer - A mare I had as a teenager loved 'Ferry cross the Mersey', I heard it on the radio in the car then sang it whilst hacking her, she reacted to it the same as your boy every time :)
 
When riding out the pointers through the village/lanes we had to pass a huge stack of haylage bales covered in flappy black plastic on top of a hill. To get the spinning, spooking pointers past it we would sing 'The Wizard of Oz' with the old school trainer trying his hardest to hide himself in his horses mane with embarrassment. I'm sure he wished he had a yard full of lads instead of girls.

Fred got the short straw because I only knew about three lines of the song. Still use it now, although now it has the opposite effect and Freddy think's were going to the gallops instead.
 
I used to sing 'there's a worm at the bottom of the garden...and his name is wiggly woo' song to a very nervy youngster on hacks...kept us both entertained and distracted from anything that might potentially eat him...:rolleyes:

Unfortunately one of young niece's toys got the song:

'im a pretty pony...clippety clop.. clippety clop
such a pretty pony...clippety clippety clop
i like to have my coat brushed underneath the old oak tree
lets jump and run, have lots of fun
why dont you come and play with me?'

STUCK in my head...so quids gets that sung to him on a regular basis including past all the 'macho' mechanics in the garages we ride past:D
 
Hehe been caught out doing this in summer too! Generally followed by a makeshift crop top too to try and catch some sun.....cue quickly shutting up, turning beetroot and wrangling top back down!
 
I'm at a new yard and I haven't made friends yet, so I thought I'd listen to some music on my phone as I groomed. I was doing back feet and belting out 'The Reflex', top Duran Duran tune, I know all the lyrics (unusually for me) cos I studied them as an enraptured teen. Imagine my burning cheeks as one of the riding school kids had to shout to make herself heard when she came to say hello. :o :o Mortified!
 
WELL WELL WELL

The couple who caught me out singing on Saturday must now think i'm absolutley BONKERS

I was poo picking the bottom paddock this evening when a friendly bumble bee decided to get a little too friendly with my face. I started wildy swiping at it with my poo rake (i'm ever so slightly afraid of bumble bees) continued swiping, swiped a little TOO vigorously and knocked myself off balance, stumbled sideways and splatted into the wheelbarrow, knocking it onto its side and sending poo cascading across the floor like a poo waterfall! All whilst shouting s*** s*** s*** s***.

As I glance around the field to check that the Bee has now gone who should be passing the gate at the bottom of the paddock?! Dog walking couple!

I imagine they'll start avoiding me now, they must think i'm an absolute loon. Good job they didn't stick around to watch me trying to soak Bailey's hooves in a water bucket!

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:D :D :D oh dear!

...I have a few little songs of my own composition for varying circumstances on our hacks, nonsensical to varying degrees. However, for some reason I don't completely understand myself, I often tend to sing Mozart arias to him, generally from the Marriage of Figaro. I' really don't understand why this happens, because they're not really my favourite arias, at that. One that frequently comes up is Deh, vieni, non tardar, which translates roughly as "Come on, don't delay", which I guess is actually pretty appropriate to a napping horse... :o
 
Brilliant! well you will have put a smile on their faces so its all good!

I used do really dodgy racing commentry whilst galloping my mare uphill! never did get caught! :D
 
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