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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush originated, according to historian RS Duncan, at Wakefield Prison in England, where female inmates had to exercise around a mulberry tree in the prison yard.
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- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep // 1731
- Goosey Goosey Gander // 1784
- Jack and Jill // 1765
- London Bridge Is Falling Down // 1744
- Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary // 1744
- Three Blind Mice // 1805
- Eeny Meeny Miny MO // Early 19th Century
- Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush // 1840
- Rock-A-Bye Baby // 1765
- Ring Around The Rosie // 1881
Though most scholars agree that “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” is about the Great Custom, a tax on wool that was introduced in 1275, its use of the color black and the word master led some to wonder whether there was a racial message at its center. Its political correctness was called into question yet again in the latter part of the 20th century, with so...
It’s hard to imagine that any rhyme with the phrase goosey gooseyin its title could be described as anything but feel-good. But one popular version of the ditty is actually a tale of religious persecution. Some years after the song’s first appearance in the historical record, it was appended with some disturbing lines. “[T]here I met an old man, wh...
One of the most common theories surrounding the story’s origin is that it’s about France’s Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, who were both found guilty of treason and subsequently beheaded. The only problem is that those events occurred nearly 30 years after “Jack and Jill” was first written. The more likely story attributes the rhyme to th...
In 2006, Fergie got saucy with some of this classic kid tune’s lyrics. But the original song wasn’t much better. Depending on whom you ask, “London Bridge is Falling Down” could be about a 1014 Viking attack or the normal deterioration of an old bridge. More specifically, many sources tie the nursery rhyme to the alleged destruction of London Bridg...
“Contrary” is one way to describe a murderous psychopath. This popular English nursery rhyme, which reads like a solicitation for gardening advice, is actually—according to many—a recounting of the homicidal nature of Queen Mary I of England, a.k.a. Bloody Mary. A fierce believer in Catholicism, her reign as queen—from 1553 to 1558—was marked by th...
“Three Blind Mice” is supposedly yet another ode to Bloody Mary’s reign, with the trio in question believed to be a group of Protestant bishops—Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Radley, and The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer—who (unsuccessfully) conspired to overthrow the queen and were burned at the stake for their heresy. Critics suggest that the ...
No, there’s nothing particularly inflammatory about the lines “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo, Catch a tiger by his toe.” Different versions of the tune popped up around the world, and most are appropriately innocent. The late 19th/early 20th century version in the United States was explicitly racist, though, with a racial slur in place of the tiger kids ca...
“Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush” is often sung as part of a children’s game. Historian R. S. Duncan, a former governor of England’s Wakefield Prison, suggested that the song originated with that 420-year-old institution’s female prisoners, who exercised around a mulberry tree. Which is probably not the connotation your 6-year-old self had in mi...
One interpretation of this famous lullaby is that it is about the son of King James II of England and Mary of Modena. It’s widely believed that the boy was not their son at all, but a child who was brought into the birthing room and passed off as their own in order to ensure a Roman Catholic heir to the throne.
Considering that some of today’s classic nursery rhymes are more than two centuries old, there are often several theories surrounding their origins—and not a lot of sound proof about which argument is correct. But of all the alleged nursery rhyme backstories, “Ring Around the Rosie” is probably the most infamous. Though its lyrics and even its titl...
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.
Jan 31, 2024 · Here we go round the mulberry bush On a cold and frosty morning. What this version explains, as readers can see, is a progression of self-care, self-maintenance and hygiene.
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Summary. ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush’ is a simple and popular child’s nursery rhyme that describes various tasks performed on a cold morning. The stanzas of ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush’ use a great deal of repetition and take the performers, and listeners, through several tasks. A group is getting ready in the morning.
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Mar 30, 2023 · Dave Higgens March 30, 2023. A mulberry bush which is believed to have inspired the famous nursery rhyme has been re-born in a new home. Historians believe the rhyme Here We Go Round The Mulberry ...
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Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush. Based on Beatles ’ biographer Hunter Davies’ novel of the same name, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush provided a very British view of sexual awakening. Barry Evans starred as the naive school-leaver determined to lose his virginity; Adrienne Posta and Judy Geeson featured as two objects of desire.
