Nursery rhymes

[Gem 1,430]

1 hour ago, woody said:

Since when has little been a colour?

It obviously isn't but she decided as the pc brigade could change it so could she.  To me black is a colour as white/blue or green so why the problem or do some peope have nothing else to do.

[Brew 5,416]

Had to happen, PC comes to nursery rhymes. What other rhymes can be altered to make them PC?

[Jill Sparrow 10,305]

2 hours ago, Gem said:

To me black is a colour as white/blue or green so why the problem or do some peope have nothing else to do.

Pales into insignificance, I suspect, compared with the anger at the tax on wool which this rhyme commemorates, dating from many centuries ago.

[katyjay 5,091]

Half a pound of twopenny rice

Half a pound of treacle

That's the way the money goes

Pop goes the weasel

 

Every time when I come home

The monkey's on the table

Get a stick and knock him off

Pop goes the weasel.

 

I think I read somewhere that this poem was about pawning something.?

[crankypig 457]

Antony Newley made this into a song I think.

[plantfit 7,594]

He certainly did crankypig, (I can hear it now on two family favourites as me dad was carving the joint)

 

Rog

[Commo 1,292]

And in the song he explained that the rhyme referred to the practice of hatters and cobblers pawning a tool used in sewing thread, known as a weasel, for drinking money, popping being the slang for pawning an item at Uncle's.

 

 

 

 

[mary1947 2,079]

Here's a Rhyme that my dad used to say to me, not sure if its a Nursery Rhyme or if my dad made it up.

 

"Piggy on the Railway picking up stones"  Chuff,  chuff , chuff,  "Down came an engine and broke piggy's bones" 

"Ah said Piggy that's not fair "  "ahh said the engine"  "I don't care" 

 

Now this must have been a good Rhyme because when I had my boys, when I used to say the Rhyme to them feedback was! " Again Mum" "tell it us again."

[MargieH 7,600]

Mary, I know that rhyme but I came across it only recently.