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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
However, one further explanation links the lyrics of the popular nursery rhyme to the East London colloquial dialect of the 1800’s, known as “Cockney Rhyming Slang”. [30] In this dialect “weasel” relates to “weasel and stoat”, or coat, and “pop” relates the “pop shop” or pawnbrokers shop.
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
This Is the Way may refer to: . This Is the Way, by The Rossington-Collins Band "This Is the Way" (Dannii Minogue song), 1993 "This Is the Way" (E-Type song), 1994 "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way", a children's nursery rhyme
The origin of the words and music is unknown, but the tune bears similarity to "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush". [citation needed] 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).
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Pussycat, Pussycat; See-Saw, Margery Daw; Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around; Pop Goes the Weasel (Jeff) Mary Had a Little Lamb; Skip to My Lou; Three Little Kittens; Two Fine Gentlemen; Gregory Griggs; Hey Diddle Diddle; Pop Goes the Weasel (Murray) Frere Jacques; Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; There Was a ...