You know in..."Round and Round the Mulberry Bush"...if he is getting tired of the damn monkey chasing him...why in the heck..doesn't he just turn around and bite him????
2006-09-29 16:45:58 · 17 answers · asked by Proud Mommy! 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
If you want a real explanation...
"Pop Goes The Weasel" originally used the word money, not monkey, and refers to pawning. A weasel is a shoemaker's tool and to "pop" is to pawn. "That's the way the money goes... Pop goes the weasel."
2006-09-29 16:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by StLMom 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Pop goes the weasel" is not anything to do with monkeys as you know them. I believe it is something to do with hat making or something like that (tailoring perhaps) The nursery rhyme goes:
"Up and down the city road,
in and out of "The Eagle",
That's the way the money goes,
Pop, goes the weasel"
which I take to mean that the hat-maker?? is spending his money in the pub and he has to work some more (popping the weasel) to make ends meet. (I Think the weasel is an iron)
Hope that is clear!! :)
(I don't know where you got the mulberry bush bit from. I never heard that before). There's also mention of a "beetle" which is some sort of implement too.
I think St L Mum has got it right. I stand corrected. Although a monkey WAS an amount of money (as is a pony!)
2006-09-30 00:00:01 · answer #2 · answered by survivor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The weasel turns around and "pops" the monkey in the nose. That pesky monkey is very annoying!
2006-09-29 23:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by Paula P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's one heck of a good question! I think that by "POP" it means that the weasel popped the monkey in the jaw! Lol!
2006-09-29 23:48:33 · answer #4 · answered by T.J. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are a Mom and remember this song ..you need to understand that alot of songs and childrens poems were writtren to help entertain the orphans of war....LIKE .. ALL around the Mulberry Bush...or...1 potato 3 potatoes 4..or ...tisket or a tasket..a green and yellow .and children set in a circle..as they played... as to keep them togeather so they could be easily be geathered for saftey..People use to take care not only of their own babies///but looked out for the other ones also...DAYS GONE BY
2006-09-30 00:04:40 · answer #5 · answered by clcschiller 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the Monkey kills him.
The Weasel thought it was just a game but "pop" no more weasel !!
2006-09-29 23:50:13 · answer #6 · answered by Parrot Bay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
monkeys are incredibly strong for their size and the weazels blood pressure is up and so he explodes or some one sliped them both some methedrine and thats the cause of the whole incident havent seen any thing from you in a while good to see you mommy,, an olde dude
2006-09-29 23:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the weasel (Diesel Weasel) is ready to 'POP' if given the right incentive! lol
2006-09-29 23:51:38 · answer #8 · answered by Basketcase 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a sexual innuendo. Makes me sick just you mentioning it.
Bushes, weasels, popping. Do you kiss your baby with that mouth?
2006-09-29 23:49:53 · answer #9 · answered by captn_carrot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahaha ur funny u also look like a older versian of my friend jazzmen im 13
2006-09-29 23:52:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋