Re: Pop! Goes the Weasel
Posted by Clawed on September 19, 2003 at 00:02:07:
In Reply to: Re: Pop! Goes the Weasel posted by Jane McCredie on June 12, 2002 at 03:49:04:
First of all, "all around the mulberry bush" was a corruption of the original "all around the cobbler's bench". There was another famous nursery rhyme, "Here we go 'round the mulberry bush", which was no doubt responsible for the confusion.
It is thought by some that "weasel and stoat" was rhyming slang for "coat". You could pawn your coat in the spring or summer, figuring to buy it back before it got cold again.
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