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Caption reads "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, 1877. Artwork by Walter Crane. "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882.
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 'Mulberry Bush', 'This Is the Way', 'This is the way (we)' England c. 1750 [126] While the tune is from The Beggar's Opera, this was adapted into a children's game in the mid-nineteenth century. [127] Hey Diddle Diddle 'Hi Diddle Diddle', 'The Cat and the Fiddle', 'The Cow Jumped Over the Moon' Great Britain
[20] Since at least the late 19th century, the nursery rhyme was used with a British children's game similar to musical chairs. [12] The players sing the first verse while dancing around rings. [12] There is always one ring less than the number of players. [12] When the "pop goes the weasel" line is reached, the players rush to secure a ring. [12]
Historians believe the rhyme Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush refers to a tree that grew inside Wakefield Prison.
Mulberry Bush may refer to: The nursery rhyme Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Pop Goes the Weasel, which references a mulberry bush in at least one verse of the song. Mulberry Bush School, an independent residential special school in Standlake, Oxfordshire
A nursery rhyme is more like a story or a chant: Most nursery rhymes don't have set melodies. Those that have been set to music, such as "Humpty Dumpty" are still primarily known as rhymes, not musical works. So, even though I love "Mairzy Doats," we must recognize that it's not a nursery rhyme, but actually a novelty pop song from the WWII era.
The nursery rhyme "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" uses the tree in the refrain, as do some contemporary American versions of the nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel". [citation needed] Vincent van Gogh featured the mulberry tree in some of his paintings, notably Mulberry Tree (Mûrier, 1889, now in Pasadena's Norton Simon Museum). He ...
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.