Poll!

[conuly]

[Poll #552692]

Edit: Yes, I know the song is properly "Next time won't you sing with me" (if you use that variation), but I couldn't say that and still be grammatical the way I had formed the question.

Comments

[rachelkachel]

Actually, my answer should be "won't you sing with me" rather than "sing along with me". But I picked the closest one.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Same thing here, I was just about to comment on that. :)

[leora.livejournal.com]

"Next time won't you sing with me"

I was taught Mulberry bush but as I got older, I learned it was cobbler's bench.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

None of the above.

Spiders are incy-wincy.
ABC song = not part of my childhood. I associate it strictly with American programmes.
Cold and frosty morning - early in the morning is for drunken sailors.
Weasels are chased? Is this before or after they go pop?

[conuly]

2. That's because you Brits can't spell.
3. That's because you Brits also don't know how to follow convention, and use that bastard term "zed".
4. Earlye, but hell yeah.
5. All around the cobbler's bench, the monkey chased the weasel, the monkey thought 'twas all in fun, POP goes the weasel.

[velasco.livejournal.com]

The itsy bitsy spider went up the waterspout
Now I know my ABC's, next time won't you sing with me?
Here we go round the mulberry bush so early in the morning
All around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel

THey liked mulberry bushes in those old rhymes, didn't they? :7 No matter, I like them too. They give me mulberries. :9

[conuly]

Pretty sure they didn't, that the original was "cobbler's bench" and "mulberry bush" is the result of confusion between that and "here we go 'round". Could be wrong, of course.

[sgt-pooh.livejournal.com]

The Mulberry Bush versions were new to me, but I'd heard most of the other versions over time. My way is the correct way, at least in my head.

Pop Goes the Weasel - I learned it with cobbler's bench, so that's what I sing. It is funny though, I asked my daughter (13 turning 14 on Saturday) which she knew and she said Mulberry bush. Daycare must have left more of an impression than I did. LOL She did know all the words to "Henry the Eighth". She had to think about the weasel. (Yes, I sang odd songs to my kids when they were babies. They tend to know Musical numbers and things, rather than the usual nursery songs.)

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

LOL! When I used to babysit my former boss' grandson I taught him "Shaving Cream!"

[conuly]

I sing Ana all those old ballads that involve sex and murder. Fun, no?

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing about the origins of some of these nursery rhymes and some are really quite gruesome. The weasel really went "POP" because the monkey broke his poor neck! "Ring Around the Rosies" is really about the bubonic plague..

[conuly]

Both of those are urban legends. For shame, you should know better than to spread the "Rosies" one around, since I've only ranted about it thrice since you've friended me!

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I heard "Early Sunday morning" for one of those. I chose what seemed like the closest to that.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Well, for me, the ABC song is a cheery love song from the early eighties.

And it's a juniper bush, not a mullberry tree.

[conuly]

Juniper bush? Now that's a new one to me.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

And it brings forth juniper berries?

[rachelkachel]

Actually, my answer should be "won't you sing with me" rather than "sing along with me". But I picked the closest one.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[leora.livejournal.com]

"Next time won't you sing with me"

I was taught Mulberry bush but as I got older, I learned it was cobbler's bench.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

None of the above.

Spiders are incy-wincy.
ABC song = not part of my childhood. I associate it strictly with American programmes.
Cold and frosty morning - early in the morning is for drunken sailors.
Weasels are chased? Is this before or after they go pop?

[conuly]

2. That's because you Brits can't spell.
3. That's because you Brits also don't know how to follow convention, and use that bastard term "zed".
4. Earlye, but hell yeah.
5. All around the cobbler's bench, the monkey chased the weasel, the monkey thought 'twas all in fun, POP goes the weasel.

[velasco.livejournal.com]

The itsy bitsy spider went up the waterspout
Now I know my ABC's, next time won't you sing with me?
Here we go round the mulberry bush so early in the morning
All around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel

THey liked mulberry bushes in those old rhymes, didn't they? :7 No matter, I like them too. They give me mulberries. :9

[conuly]

Pretty sure they didn't, that the original was "cobbler's bench" and "mulberry bush" is the result of confusion between that and "here we go 'round". Could be wrong, of course.

[sgt-pooh.livejournal.com]

The Mulberry Bush versions were new to me, but I'd heard most of the other versions over time. My way is the correct way, at least in my head.

Pop Goes the Weasel - I learned it with cobbler's bench, so that's what I sing. It is funny though, I asked my daughter (13 turning 14 on Saturday) which she knew and she said Mulberry bush. Daycare must have left more of an impression than I did. LOL She did know all the words to "Henry the Eighth". She had to think about the weasel. (Yes, I sang odd songs to my kids when they were babies. They tend to know Musical numbers and things, rather than the usual nursery songs.)

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

LOL! When I used to babysit my former boss' grandson I taught him "Shaving Cream!"

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing about the origins of some of these nursery rhymes and some are really quite gruesome. The weasel really went "POP" because the monkey broke his poor neck! "Ring Around the Rosies" is really about the bubonic plague..

[conuly]

Both of those are urban legends. For shame, you should know better than to spread the "Rosies" one around, since I've only ranted about it thrice since you've friended me!

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I heard "Early Sunday morning" for one of those. I chose what seemed like the closest to that.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Well, for me, the ABC song is a cheery love song from the early eighties.

And it's a juniper bush, not a mullberry tree.

[conuly]

Juniper bush? Now that's a new one to me.