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!

Comments

Re: Cultural Differences?

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Important Follow Up. Wikipedia states thus regarding "Pop Goes the Weasel":

"Contemporary verses in the United States consist of mainly these two:

All around the mulberry bush (or cobbler's bench)
The monkey chased the weasel;
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun, (or 'twas all in good sport)
Pop! goes the weasel. "

This is the only verse of "Pop Goes the Weasel" I have ever heard. Is it true that this is an America only verse?

Re: Cultural Differences?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. I don't recognise that at all.

(That said, right now I could only recite the "Half a pound of twopenny rice" verse. I know there's at least one more but I've forgotten most of it.)

Re: Cultural Differences?

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

For people who grew up to be London bores, the key verse is the "Up and down the City Road/In and out the Eagle*" one, because it places the song in identifiable, real places. When the Independent newspaper had their offices on the City Road (before being shipped off to godforsaken Canary Wharf), they had a column written by 'The Weasel'.

*It's also your starter for how to talk like a character from EastEnders: omit "of"/"to" etc...