streetfelineblue
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5/23/2012
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Maybe to the English players this comes as no surprise, but I never realized the most haunting tune plaguing the ears and minds (and pets) of Mahogany Hall regulars was actually a real nursery rhyme! Nor I had any hint of its actual significance, if Cracked.com is a reliable source (haha, like internet is a safe place for finding true facts...). Anyway, the article might be of interest to Fallen Londoners: The disturbing origins of 5 common nursery rhymes, #2
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Emily St Aubert
Posts: 46
5/24/2012
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I grew up (in southeast London) with:
half a pound of tuppenny rice
a penny's worth of treacle
mix it up and make it nice
pop goes the weasel
We also sometimes sang:
up and down the City Road
in and out the Eagle
that's the way the money goes
pop goes the weasel
and others remember:
every night when I get home
the monkey's on the table
get a stick and knock him off
pop goes the weasel
There is evidence of the song being used in London theatre performances, so I believe. I also thought it was very popular in America, but maybe not in the same way as it survived in English playgrounds.
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Kittenpox
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10/4/2015
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 Plagued by a Popular Song is increasing…
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fitz
Posts: 91
10/4/2015
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Right, here seems the most relevant place to put this. I was just minding my own business, when I had the sudden desire to work out how the Neath's version of the song went.
What I currently have it this:
(round brackets) indicate lines, made up by me
[square brackets] indicate impromptu, made up, lines; according to Neathy extracts
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Half a pound of Rubbery Lumps,
a pennyworth of beetles,
give the spoil to Mr Wines,
pop! goes the weasel
Half a pound of tuppenny 'shrooms,
a copper's got the measles,
(That’s the way the pennies go,) (In the dreams of Mr Spices)
pop! goes the weasel
All around the Labyrinth coils,
in and out New Newgate,
take a bat from Mr Veils,
pop! goes the weasel
Under all the chapel eaves,
all the roofs and steeples, [on St Fiacre's steeple]
(hide the spies of Mr Stones,) [that's the way the Masters Fly,]
pop! goes the weasel
Every night when I get home,
there's L.B.s on the ceiling,
grab the broom and knock them off,
pop! goes the weasel
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Has anyone found any other verses or lines; or can work out what the missing lines may have been? I had thought each verse related to a Master, until I found the last one...
edited by fitz on 10/4/2015
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Nigel Overstreet
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6/8/2012
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It's relatively well known in America and in our popular culture. Commander Data is trying to whistle it when he first meets Riker on the holodeck, for example.
However, if you would ever like to drive sane men to the brink of madness and beyond, whistle the first three bars of the song and then stop. Leave out the "pop goes the weasel" part. Then watch as everyone in the room gets completely on edge waiting for you to finish. I cannot be held responsible for bodily harm should you attempt this.
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penknife
Posts: 85
6/8/2012
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I'm from the American South, and I learned it as:
Round and round the mulberry bush,
the monkey chased the weasel,
the monkey cried 'twas all in fun,
POP! goes the weasel.
So the exploding weasels were not a complete surprise. (POP!)
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Jack Vaux-Harrowden
Posts: 245
6/9/2012
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I'm American, and fairly recent crop. I heard this song on occasion growing up with these lyrics:
All around the cobbler's bench
The monkey chased the weasel
The monkey thought it all in fun
Pop! goes the weasel
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Urthdigger
Posts: 939
6/8/2012
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Curses wrote:
I'm still lost to as why having this tune in your head seems to be fatal to your weasels..
POP goes the weasel!
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Gonen
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10/4/2015
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Sorry,
I put the [ ] on so you'll know it's made up. Thought it was obvious... :p
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Loon
Posts: 379
10/12/2015
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Oh God I do know it! I was surprised to read that it was a real nursery song, then I listened to it and even though I've never heard the lyrics the melody is extremely familiar. I'm sure I must have had a music box or something playing it. (For the info, I grew up in France and Germany. Well, mostly France, but my aunt in Germany whom I visited regularly had a music box and I suspect it might have been this one.)
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