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.

[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.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[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?

[l33tminion]

Yup.

[conuly]

Okay, knock it off. That wouldn't fit the structure of the question, grammatically. Sacrifices were made.

[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.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[maelorin]

the irony here leaves me speechless :)

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

The version of "pop" i know has both
The verse you gave with cobbelers bench and fun and
round and round the mulberrry bush, the monkey chased the weesel, the weesel stopped to pull up his socks, pop goes the weesel.

[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]

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..

[beetlebomb.livejournal.com]

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

[rho]

The only verse of that song that I know is:

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

And on all the others, I'm going to have to agree with eofs.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

Re 5, I heard, "All around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel, that's the way the monkey goes, POP goes the weasel."

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

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

[innerbrat]

I mix them up and make them rise before the weasel goes pop

[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.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

The variant of that verse that I know is

Penny for a spool of thread
Penny for a needle
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel.

[conuly]

Hey, I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

[conuly]

In addition to the spool of thread somebody listed, there's also

NAME has the whooping cough
and NAME has the measles
That's the way the money goes
POP goes the weasel.

[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!

[conuly]

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