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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2013-03-11 05:42 pm

There's a rhyme that ends in "Pop goes the Weasel"

How do YOU think the rest of the rhyme goes?
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[identity profile] batwrangler.livejournal.com 2013-03-11 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Round and round the mulberry bush,
the monkey chased the weasel.
The weasel thought it was a joke.
Pop goes the weasel.
Penny for a spool of thread.
Penny for a needle.
That's the way the money goes.
Pop goes the weasel.

(I think there's more, but that's what I know off the top of my head.)

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2013-03-12 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
That's funny: in the version I learned, the monkey was the one who thought it was "all in fun."
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[identity profile] batwrangler.livejournal.com 2013-03-12 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know whether the weasel/monkey switch is an actual local variation or just the folk process in action in my brain.

[identity profile] tawneypup.livejournal.com 2013-03-13 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
That's how I learned it, too!

[identity profile] sarahmichigan.livejournal.com 2013-03-12 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The version I learned was close to batwrangler's:

All around the mulberry bush,
the monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun
Pop goes the weasel.

I think the penny/spool part went the same as batwrangler's.