Conference moira::parenting_v3

    All around the mulberry bush
    The monkey chased the weasel
    The monkey thought was all in fun
    Pop goes the weasel
    
    (is there more?)
    

    Chip,
    
    This is they way that I remember it.  There are two verses.
    
    All around the Mulberry bush the monkey chased the Wiesel
    the monkey thought it was all in fun.
    Pop goes the wiesel.
    
    A penny for a spool of thread a penny for a needle
    thats the way the money goes.
    
    Pop goes the wiesel.
    
    
    Liz

    Half a pound of twopenny rice
    half a pound of treacle
    that's the way the money goes
    pop goes the weasel
    
    (I hope I got that right!)

    Re> All around the mulberry bush
    
    A co-worker told me it was, "All around the cobbler's bench..."
    and that the "mulberry bush" was another song. :(

    
    
    I too learned...
    
    All around the cobbler's bench...
    
    
    and when I learned it, it was a NICKEL for the needle (inflation)
    

All around the cobbler's bench                 (or around the Jack in the box)
The monkey chased the weasel
The Monkey thought it was all in the fun
"Pop Goes the Weasel"

(chorus that my mind has goen blank on!)

Half a pound of tuppeny rice                       (tuppeny = two penny)
and half a pound of treacle
That's the way the muh-uhney goes
"Pop goes the weasel"

    Thanks to you we'll be singing away tonight!
    I decided to go with the mulberry bush and charge a nickle for the
    needle.  
    
    When my second child starts pre-school, we'll go with the
    cobbler's bench and up the price of the needle to a buck.  :)
    
    Thanks again, Chip

    The mulberry bush was from the song
    
    Here we go 'round the Mulberry Bush
    The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
    Here we go 'round the mulberry bush
    on a cold and frosty morning
    
    or 
    
    Here we go gathering Nuts in May
    etc...
    
    

    RE>692.8
    
    You're right.  After thinking about it, "cobbler's bench" makes more
    sense because the second verse talks about spools of thread and
    needles.

For historical accuracy, I think you'd better stick the the penny for
the needle.  A long time ago, I read what purported to be an
explaination of the lyrics.  It's supposedly a British song about
pawning (pop'ing) your watch (weasel) to pay for day-to-day expenses.
 
                                  >>>==>PStJTT

	RE: -1 

	Actually, the lyrics are the description of how a cobbler repairs a 
shoe.

Tracey

    
    
    I always heard it was a nickel for a needle.  I always thought
    it was because needles were metal and probably more expensive.
    
    :^)

RE: .11  Glad to hear there's room for controversy.

Re: .12  I hate it when engineers take things too literally, but.... If you 
	priced out a spool of thread and the per-needle cost of a pack of
	needles, the thread would probably cost more. (I can't help it... stop
	me before I calculate again!)

                    >>>==>PStJTT

re: .10 and .11 I think you're both right - the American version of this song 
is about a cobbler mending shoes, but the British version is about pawning 
whatever a weasel may be.  FWIW this is the British version

Half a pound of tuppeny rice
Half a pound of treacle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel

Up and down the City Road     ! a road in London?
In and out the Eagle          ! Eagle = name of a pub
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel

I thought that the weasel refered to a fur coat but I don't know for sure.

- Janet

It *can't* be a nickle for the needle!  The derivation on the song is
clearly English, and there is no such thing as a nickle in England.

    I thought it was about spinning off tread from a spinning wheel, and
    the pop of the weasle was the 1 yard mark...count the pops and your
    skein is a standard amount of wool.  
    
    
    Everyone's got a version!
    
    Adrienne