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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[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Hey Diddle Diddle: The Fun Boy Three, "The Farmyard Connection": "Hey diddle diddle, policeman on the fiddle / He sold off the drugs to the man in the middle" etc

Jack and Jill: The Divine Comedy, "If": "If you were attacked, I would kill for you / If your name was Jack, I'd change mine to Jill for you"

Pat-a-Cake: Kahimi Karie, "The Seventh Wife of Henry VIII" (I've only heard Momus's demo though)

(Actually I'd expect Momus to have references to several of these scattered around his oeuvre)

(Also I wouldn't be surprised if the same goes for Current 93)

and the momus rap outgrabe

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that's what I was thinking of, msieu Currie crams lots of such stuff into his rymez in "Righthand Heart":

Nick nack heart attack, give the dog a bone
Knees up, who's up Old Mother Brown?
Rubber boy, bovver boy, my son John
Kills all the Judys with his big hard on
Pop goes the weasel, bang goes the deal
Punch went to market to club a few seals
Cat got the baby, Judy fell apart
This little piggy had a righthand heart