Poptimists Goes The Weasel

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I got sent a CD of nursery rhymes for my kid - it was rub though. But it reminded me to do the much promised NURSERY RHYMES CANON. These selections are from the top ranked nursery rhyme CD at Amazon.co.uk, from "Oxbridge Baby" (ew). Other CDs have about a billion rhymes on but this is a CANON POLL and we frown on such inclusiveness. You get six ticks.

[Poll #1126074]

Bonus task - can we compile a CD of pop records which quote or reference all of these? Adam Ant - "Puss In Boots". Fergie - "London Bridge" - there, 16 to go!

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green go the rushes

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I'd never ever heard this song until Steed and Peel on the Avengers are pretending to be drunk/druggz0red in a very bizarre episode called Too Many Christmas Trees (Mrs Peel dresses as a Dickensian Urchin?? Or is that another one) - anyway - they sing Green Grow the Rushes-O and it isn't half CATCHY.

But anyway - I wonder why I never encountered it? Is it fairly common? I thought it was probably fairly obscure... but perhaps I was just sheltered from it's pagan message.

Re: green go the rushes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's common exactly, not as much as these picks are anyway. It was one of the songs my Mum and Dad would get us to sing on long car journeys (along w/One Man Went To Mow and Old Micky D), I don't know where they picked it up, my Mum grew up in Westmoreland so maybe there.

It is an awesome song.

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[sbp.livejournal.com]

I've known it since I was fairly small. Don't know where from.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i was on one of the sing-a-long schools programmes on radio four introduced by people with incredible cut-glass accents that we used to listen to in lieu of a proper assembly. other classics included their take on blaydon races ("should've seen us gaining" rather than GANNIN') and leaving of liverpool.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also, it's not pagan is it?

one is one and all alone and ever more shall be so = MONOTHEISM amirite?

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That does seem to have a kind of strong anti-Trinity message Steve!

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i should be doing work writing my radio script, not googling for interpretations of GGTRO!

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I first found it in an old song book ("Sing As We Go" - intended for long car journeys) and didn't know it, and forced Mum & Dad to sing me the entire thing so I would learn it.

See also 'There's A Hole In My Bucket'.

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[koganbot]

Sang it at camp at age six. Long and boring. Not nearly as good as "Mr. Johnny Rebeck" (sp?) about the man who ground up all the neighbor's cats and dogs in his sausage-making machine, but one day got his comeuppance.

green grow the rushes, beeyotch

[koganbot]

Also, the green grows, rather than merely goes, and the song contains contemporary hip-hop slang:

Green grow the rushes, HO!