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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
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
Historians believe the rhyme Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush refers to a tree that grew inside Wakefield Prison.
The hornpipe tune was said to be by Thomas Arne and is known now as "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush". [2] In her second summer season at Sadler's Wells Nancy Dawson was promoted to the part of Columbine, and in the following winter she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre under Edward Shuter, in The Prophetess by Thomas ...
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 ...
The origin of the words and music is unknown, but the tune bears similarity to "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush". The earliest documented reference is The Hackney Scout Song Book (Stacy & Son Ltd, 1921). It also appears in The Oxford song book, vol.2, collected and arranged by Thomas Wood (Oxford University Press, 1927).
A song based on the Mulberry Bush nursery rhyme, talking about the 1947-1948 ban. [10] The 1950 Warner Bros. animated short Hurdy-Gurdy Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, ends with Bugs making large amounts of money by having a monkey turn a street organ while a gorilla collects donations. Bugs quips, "I sure hope Petrillo doesn't hear about this!"