The Terrifying Truth Behind 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush'

🔍 Uncover the chilling truths behind your favourite childhood nursery rhymes in our latest video, "The Terrifying Truth Behind Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" Venture with us as we peel back the layers of this seemingly innocent rhyme to reveal its sinister past.
👀 Have you ever wondered why we sing "Here we go round the mulberry bush" on a cold and frosty morning? Join us as we delve into the eerie history of this haunting melody. From its origins as a possible mockery of King James I's failed silk industry venture to its dark connection with Wakefield Prison, this rhyme holds secrets you won't believe.
🏰 Step into the past as we recount the ambitious silk industry dreams of King James I. Discover how a simple oversight led to centuries of speculation and intrigue surrounding this timeless nursery rhyme.
🕵️‍♂️ Unravel the mystery with us as we examine the chilling possibility that "Here we go round the mulberry bush" was crafted by female inmates as a grim reminder of their fate. Could this innocent-sounding rhyme have served as a taunt to prisoners facing public execution?
🌳 Witness the legacy of the infamous mulberry tree as it weaves through history, from its origins in James I's Mulberry Garden to its symbolic significance in Wakefield Prison's identity.
🔍 Share your thoughts and theories in the comments below. Do you believe the rhyme mocks King James I or stems from the haunting halls of Wakefield Prison? Or perhaps you have your own interpretation? Subscribe to our channel for more dark nursery rhyme revelations and join us on our quest to uncover the truth behind childhood's most enigmatic melodies. Don't miss out-subscribe now!
CHAPTERS
00:36 Revisiting the Rhyme
01:28 King James I
04:22 First Publication
05:08 Wakefield Prison
07:54 The Mulberry's Legacy

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Greetings, Darklings 🖤I do hope you find fascination in the terrifying origins of the 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush'. If you enjoyed this video and would like to support the continuation of our adventures, I'm always grateful for a cup of coffee ☕. Your generosity keeps the candles burning and the mysteries unravelling: www.buymeacoffee.com/theresurrectionists Yours in darkness and discovery, L x

[@knrdvmmlbkkn]

@EuroWarsOrg"Strange how many (...) had dark origins." Which others have that?

[@markrymanowski719]

This song brings back happy feelings from when i was 6 years old. 1960.

[@Saxxin1]

Kids just want to be kids. But you psychopaths want to destroy anything they might enjoy to virtue signal.

[@ufosrus]

The narrator has a very pleasant voice, nice diction and beautiful, clear British English.

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Thank you so much! :)

[@sebastiangruffydd2765]

It sounds to me that the nursery rhyme "here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" started out as beer drinking song that was later adapted Wakefield Prison. It then was carried on as a nursery rhyme as an entertaining way of instilling personal hygiene habits in children and emphasizing the importance of cleanliness to young children.

[@dawnwheeler2649]

Yes in the U.S. we also used “ so early in the morning”.

[@whatsanenigma]

So interesting to hear about the real original text. I've always heard that last line as "so early in the morning."

[@joanhoffman3702]

Me, too.

[@DEVILTAZ35]

We were just taught it as ‘Early in the morning’ when I was a kid.

[@The-Resurrectionists]

I grew up singing the 'early in the morning' version too! But it seems to be a modern variation. Thank you for watching :) 🖤

[@silva7493]

Me too, I was born in the middle 1950s in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[@greybeardcanadian1036]

Yeah, our version was also "so early in the morning

[@MrEab2010]

we gleefully sang "Ring Around the Rosie" as children, not knowing that it was about the Black Death.

[@adorablelex6751]

Grew up in the Midwest in the US and remember singing this, last line ‘so early in the morning’

[@CurioByBSpokeDesigns]

I grew up in Wakefield, and always knew this version of the nursery rhyme. The original bush dies several years ago but a cutting survived. It's also believed that the Grand Old Duke of York, marched his 10,000 men up the hill at nearby Sandal Castle.

[@kategray9]

That’s correct. The original mulberry bush was in the yard of Wakefield prison. Hope the cuttings took.

[@myradioon]

"Matanza" means "to hit" In Italian/Latin. "Matanzie" could be an anglicized name for a room where clothes were washed and "beaten".

[@kalmakoff99]

We used to sing it "So early in the morning" instead of "on a cold and frosty morning"

[@The-Resurrectionists]

I grew up singing the 'early in the morning' version too; but it seems that's a more modern variation. Thank you for watching :) 🖤

[@robintauber9994]

Same! "... So ear-lye in the morning

[@danq.5140]

We did as well.

[@SaraMKay]

Like in: What shall we do with the drunken sailor? 😄

[@infin8ee]

Everytime I watch one of these videos, I end up singing the rhyme in mt head all week. There's a reason all of these old stories/rhymes have lasted for so long.

[@tashuntka]

😄😄😄😄 ditto..🖤🖤🖤

[@bethweeks5943]

Yes! 😊🎉😊

[@Raven4508]

What they call an ear worm...

[@mariemorgan7759]

I am looking for the songs we used in the 1970s for jump rope, some would be very offensive today.

[@chrisdorrell1]

The best thing on the Internet by FAR. WIth a perfect voice . Fabulous! 🎉

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Thank you so much! I'm so grateful for your support and encouragement! 🖤🖤 :)

[@nigeldunkley2986]

@@The-Resurrectionists You do have perfect mellifluous diction, Sweetling!

[@randomgrinn]

So you haven't found porn on the internet yet then?

[@SaraMKay]

@@randomgrinnYou mustn't even try

[@jamesmcinnis208]

​@@randomgrinn LOL

[@mikeyb4610]

With the wind howling outside on this blustery Friday night…watching a video about a nursery rhyme that I used to sing as a child… and discovering that it is possibly the last song that condemned prisoners heard before being publicly executed…I’m sleeping with the light on tonight!!🫣😮…another amazing presentation…thanks for sharing 😊…more please

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words :) Don't have nightmares! 🖤

[@cocoaorange1]

I only do that when watching ghost videos at night. I do get goosebumps!

[@mikeyb4610]

@@The-Resurrectionists didn’t sleep a wink!!…wind screaming through the Mulberry trees all night and even blew the lights out! ((electric 😮!)…faint figure that looked suspiciously like James I pacing up and down the street with a hangman’s rope in his hand muttering something about losing a lot of money!… 👻😊

[@pickinduck]

The mulberry bush is also mentioned in Pop Goes the Weasel. Your video gives a possible new expanded meaning to that song.

[@The-Resurrectionists]

The 'here we go round a mulberry bush' line in Pop Goes the Weasel is a modern variant (appearing from the mid 20th century in America). I presume the two rhymes became amalgamated at some point. I will be doing a future video on 'Pop Goes the Weasel' so we will explore it then :)

[@tashuntka]

**eyes light up** I can't wait...(puts out sangria and spring rolls for Ressie-claus) 🫶✨️✨️💖✨️✨️🫶

[@pickinduck]

@@The-Resurrectionists "All around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weavel". I love Pop Goes the Weasel almost as much as Twa Corbies. The last I heard The Eagle is still up and running. I do a lot of investigative time traveling. Locally where I reside, I have been getting a lot of enjoyment from discovering aspects of the almost gone Walnut Grove Schoolhouse of the 1800s or possibly 1700s. I have a different vantage point than most (if not all) and my vista is much grander. In current events I find Russia's ancillary war very intriguing. I hope that when you make your Pop Goes the Weasel video that you include how adaptable it is to songwriting and include a version of your own.

[@JungleJoeVN]

Your video couldn't be more timely or relevant in my life. I have just planted both types of mulberry trees in my garden in Vietnam. One is for the fruit, the other is for the leaves. China, India, Vietnam and many other Southeast Asian countries have been cultivating mulberry for millennia and are now producing bigger leaves than in the past. I grow them for my goat. She loves mulberry and I love mulberry wine from the other trees. As for this rhyme, I think it was made to poke fun at king Chucky.

[@MsDana-mo9fp]

The Nursery Rhymes were taught to children to help them grow up quickly in pre- Victorian times, because children worked in "sweatshops" & other places! Ring-around the Rosie's, London Bridge, & Rock - Bye Baby, too! There are so many more

[@goglowdaddy1686]

Fascinating. This has me thinking of:"The Wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, 'round and 'round...". There is a similar cadence and pattern.

[@thorny3218]

Melodies are often shared. Think of the alphabet song and twinkle twinkle little star. All based on a small piece of Mozart.

[@Anthony-k7t]

Nearly every nursery rhymes are warnings of danger and evils of the world. Fact .

[@supertuscans9512]

Quite a number of them are very likely satirical rather than warnings.effectively disguised jibes at the powers that were of the time.

[@NoNameNoFace-rr7li]

TS Elliot's use of this poem is fantastic

[@Johanna.J]

We have that same rhyme and game in Sweden. I used to sing it when i was a kid, but the lyrics are slightly different. Insted of it being a "cold and frosty mornig" it was an early monday morning, and then it was an early tusday morning and so on.

[@IrisTatjanaIsaksen]

The same in Norway

[@suZfe0211]

And in Denmark.

[@naomiholzer988]

And in New York 😂

[@robertabarnhart6240]

And California.

[@shardawna]

That's the version I learned in east Texas as well.

[@hattyburrow716]

In the 1 950s my big brother was at primary school in Oxfordshire, about a mile away in a field was a splendid mulberry tree in what was once a part of the garden of a big house. But this was the correct kind of mulberry tree and so the school children kept and grew silkworms, fed on the leaves the big boys collected from the mulberry tree. Not exciting, but ephemera from a much missed past x

[@theoriginalkyttyn7724]

Yet another brilliant foray into the shadowy origins of nursery rhymes. Thank you!

[@IRSA1]

Beautifully put together, as usual. It seems that the royal blunder connection id rather more tenuous than the more likely retelling of the harsh reality of prison life in those times especially with reenactment of common routines. So spine chilling to think of a mulberry tree as the last sight before being put to death !

[@FatherFish]

As a child I learned the last line as "And we all fall down.

[@TheLavenderLover]

Ring around the rosey A pocketful of posies Ashes, Ashes, We all fall down!

[@nialcc]

I think that was a different song.

[@AdeleiTeillana]

😂

[@catherineward1188]

@@TheLavenderLoverinstead of “ashes” we used to sing “husha, husha, we all fall down.”

[@jenniferleaning4847]

We used to sing “atishoo! atishoo! We all fall down.” Descriptive of the symptoms of a particular illness.

[@darlenegattus8190]

Why are all children nursery rhymes terrifying.

[@justkenzie]

Seems like they were all invented during dismal conditions lol.

[@BeastOuncelifeian]

It was oral history, taught to children in a sing song way so they would repeat and remember them .

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

Because life is terrifying and children have to learn how to cope with it, something we seem to have forgotten nowadays unfortunately.

[@fnuppyfnup]

Not all countries have terrifying nursery rhymes. Quebec however has some really sadistic ones like 'Alouette gentil Alouette'.

[@ThePresidentialTouch]

No TV.

[@ing-mariekoppel1637]

In Sweden and Denmark we have this same song but here it is about a Juniper bush.

[@knrdvmmlbkkn]

In Norway as well! I suppose mulberry doesn't grow this far north.

[@Serendip98]

Interesting. Perhaps a connexion with Brothers Grimms tale 'Von dem Machandelboom' (The Juniper Tree) ? It is a rather terrifying and cruel tale (child abuse, murder, cannibalism and biblical symbolism', says Wikipedia).

[@stephenm8100]

I've been told the song had originated from a woman's prison. Someone planted a bush of some sort in the middle of the exercise yard.

[@young749Au]

Origins are most important. Many seemingly innocent rhymes have dark origins.

[@justinlynn7315]

"Ring around the Rosies" was definitly about the black plauge

[@drewgoin8849]

I just discovered this channel. Beautifully edited, cleanly edited, and very well narrated. Keep up the great work!

[@amysbees6686]

Something tells me both the royal and prison origins are very plausible, yet may have developed independently of each other. It's worth looking into.

[@diane64yorks]

I've always known it to be about Wakefield gaol's exercise yard

[@janmorris1098]

There was a mulberry tree in the middle of the exercise yard that the prisoners used to walk round.

[@alanslater4206]

@@janmorris1098 Still there or one of it's decendants

[@sneezymonkey]

Me too. Living in the Wakefield District myself, this is the story I got told.

[@avrahamishshalom1799]

I would love to watch a video about "Pop goes the weasel" - that rhyme has always puzzled me.

[@thelwulfeoforlic6482]

It sounds like a working song (as in the vein of a sea shanty), so would fit in with female prisoners scrubbing etc in unison to pass the time.

[@cath3638]

As always- well researched, well presented and narrated in that beautiful voice!

[@saralang9677]

Thoroughly agreed.

[@Donathon-qx8kq]

Wow...i always thought it was a harvest rhyme looking forward to Beltane

[@mtavel01]

All I can think of with James' great blunder in the cards in Alice in Wonderland. PAINTING THE ROSES RED.

[@tonyjohnson8752]

I'm trying to understand why I am so fascinated by these stories. Keep em coming please.

[@nicholaswalker2494]

Cheer’s dark one super video,keep em coming 👍👍

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Thank you! I'm so happy you're enjoying my channel :) 🖤

[@vanessawood1945]

When I was a kid in Lincolnshire we sang this song with a friend in the middle. Our last verse was ‘This is the way we cut off his head’ and the middle child knelt down as we curtsied. I can’t be the only person who sang this version!

[@blindknitter]

No you're not - also in Lancaster, in the 70s!

[@Sunlightmoonbright]

We sang the head cutting version in north east Scotland in the 1970s.

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Thank you for sharing - that is fascinating! I wonder if it's a combination of the rhyme with 'Oranges and Lemons'?

[@vanessawood1945]

@@The-Resurrectionists two other people replied with the same, we all sang this version in the 70’s

[@naomipask1809]

Ooh, I vaguely remember hearing this as a child.

[@steviem8466]

Most traditional nursery ryhmes were centred on destructive events. For example, Ring o ring o roses, was about the black death (plague).

[@hebbyhope2094]

I really enjoyed this and I cannot really choose between the two versions as both seem to fit. Thank you for another great video.❤❤❤❤

[@jasonuren3479]

Sorry but this is the best channel on KZbin, nay! The Internet, by far! Interesting entertaining and educational. Love it! Great stuff! 👏👍

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Your comment truly brightened my day, thank you! 🖤 :)

[@FrancisHatton]

Why sorry.

[@kimberlysmiley4732]

I heard it differently: Here we go round a mulberry bush A monkey and a weasel Monkey thought it was all in fun, Pop goes the weasel. A penny for a spool of thread, A penny for a needle, Monkey thought it was all in fun, Pop goes the weasel !

[@nicksabot]

The way I learned it was similar: All around the mulberry bush The monkey chased the weasel The monkey thought it was all in good fun Pop! Goes the weasel.

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Ah, you are reciting 'Pop Goes the Weasel' : Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That's the way the money goes, Pop! Goes the weasel. It has a number of other verses too; but the 'here we go round a mulberry bush' line is a modern variant (appearing from the mid 20th century in America). We will delve into all this in my future video about 'Pop Goes the Weasel' :)

[@kimberlysmiley4732]

@@The-Resurrectionists yes! Did you do that one?

[@Ohforgodssakethatsme]

The monkey and the weasel go round a cobbler's bench in the version I heard.

[@Pocketfarmer1]

I heard pop goes the weasel as here we go round the cobblers bench , the monkey…. The mulberry bush was different and much like the examples in this video.

[@rustyicepick8462]

A perfect example of the power of knowledge. Had King James known the climate requirements for the Mulberry and the difference between the white and black varieties he could have avoided his mistake. But what about his advisors? Were they ignorant of the difference between the white and black Mulberry or the climate requirements? Or could the misinformation have been a deliberate attempt to embarrass and perhaps weaken the King?

[@Lili-xq9sn]

Also, the king could have laughed and helped everyone eat well, by making mulbery jam, pies, etc into a huge trade.

[@BlondPastelQueen]

The same rhyme exists in Denmark (and possibly all of Scandinavia), but with the days of the week, instead of "the morning". It ends with going to church on Sunday

[@IrisTatjanaIsaksen]

And running fast home after cermony

[@tussk.]

The prison theory is more plausible as the tree was in the yard, and the only exercise prisoners would get would be to walk around and around it in a circle. With thier lives being repetitive and regimented right down to an absurd degree, such as washing thier faces, it makes sense each verse described some mundane and perfunctory act. It may have been sung by prisoners as one of them was taken to the gallows, but it wouldn't have been a taunt, more like a comfort.

[@patricedesvarieux2856]

I think king James the 1st sounds more like the story. The prisoners was interesting but I never heard of it. I truly love your research. Since April 6th is Tartan day, I was really excited when I saw the Scottish guard wearing his Royal Stewart tartan. I was wearing my kilt today. Anyway, another great video and as always looking forward to another one.

[@rosatrula]

I used to sing the last line as 'On a bright Saturday morning' because I used to run rings around a tree behind my house which I used to believe was THE actual mulberry tree and had to wait for Saturday morning to run rings around it.

[@Lili-xq9sn]

I think we did all the days of the week. (Like how tea towels have Monday is wash day, Tuesday is ironing day, etc) This is the way we wash our clothes so early Monday morning.

[@justicetrufaux6722]

An actual interesting and informative YT video! Kudos to you, my dear! How about the black plague nursery rhyme? Maybe you’ve already done it?

[@mauricebate5069]

Great and always interesting to listen too and the amount of research you put into each time !!! Narration is always spot on you deserve a tv channel spot 👍👍👍👍👍

[@tashuntka]

Am I the only one who's dying to know, simultaneously not wanting to know what she looks like ? I'd consider trading sight, to be near that voice forever...🖤🖤🖤

[@pi-sx3mb]

After my Mother passed a few years ago, I was sorting through her things which included books with stories and songs, fairy tales, Brothers Grimm stuff etc. and a flood of horrific memories poured back into my consciousness. Back in the day it wasn't uncommon for "children's books" to include really sick twisted stuff including bloody drawings illustrating cautionary tales of old decrepit adults terrorizing children and butchering animals and all other manner of creepy images. What passed for "normal" could be some really sick sick sick sh*t.

[@jaminegender5748]

A few years ago I was at my cousins house and her son wanted me to read a story to him from the children’s bible. The version was from the 1950s. I was horrified at what was acceptable to put in the children’s bible back then! It was not child friendly. All doom and gloom. lol

[@pi-sx3mb]

@@jaminegender5748 Right? Borderline child abuse!

[@Lili-xq9sn]

Yeah, but we were left to our own devices with no supervision half the day. Life was dangerous and tough. So stories like those were helpful.

[@Lili-xq9sn]

Yeah, but we were left to our own devices with no supervision half the day. Life was dangerous and tough. So stories like those were helpful.

[@Lili-xq9sn]

Yeah, but we were left to our own devices with no supervision half the day. Life was dangerous and tough. So stories like those were helpful.

[@iksRoald]

We have a similar one in Norway, usually sung around Christmas and around the chritmas tree, but the trees name is then always «en enebærbusk», a juniper bush, and the lyrics othewise is as in Sweden, with the household washing chores. It ends with sunday, solemnly on to church, and then fast homewards from church.

[@marymoor9293]

I think it was the lady prisoners who started the rhyme, as all the verses are chores, and that really has nothing to do with silk manufacturing.

[@drewsykes8231]

i firstly heard about wakefield prison being the inspiration, either way it endures

[@lasvegme]

Majority of songs were written during the plague. So many people dieing. Have become nursery rimes years later. People have a short memory regarding these dreadfully sad limericks

[@CriticalMass-yu1ec]

Absolutely awesome content 🖤

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Thank you so much :) 🖤

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

I wouldn't expect the moth to do well in England .. but picking the wrong tree from the start is a costly blunder! I sell Morus Rubra for fifteen dollars each (when we aren't sold out of them!) - that's _red_ mulberry, a North American native. Trees are sexed, male and female, and only females produce berries - I suppose, if one was only growing them for the leaves, it wouldn't matter - I only sell female mulberry trees, but if there isn't a male growing close enough to pollinate for you we can work something out (chances are, there is, though!) Mulberry takes from cuttings quite well .. so if you want one hundred thousand, start with a hundred, and spend a few years taking and starting cuttings .. it will save your treasury! Mulberry leaves add sulfur to the soil as they decompose, making them an excellent companion for alliums.

[@AP-gb3eh]

New this as a kid in the 60s , lots of stories & songs were warnings and pretty dark

[@amhunter7556]

This is fascinating, thank you SO MUCH!

[@Lee-rg8qq]

British Humour has always been rooted in three core concepts Satire & Mockery Dark & Gallows Humour Self Depreciation So either origin is highly plausible as they draw on 2 of those principles.

[@sylvisterling8782]

The way we heard that last line, in America, was "So early in the morning!" not "cold and frosty".

[@MrSniperdude01]

North American Here Never heard that rendition before. The one we hear, the one I grew up with went like this: "All around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel. The monkey thought it was all in good fun. Pop ! goes the weasel. " Only nursery rhyme I recall involving a "mulberry bush" from childhood

[@cambuxton6835]

I found out about what the song is REALLY about a long time ago. I used to listen to it as a child. I thought as a child it was completely different from what it is truly about. Innocence is so sweet. Wait until they are older before you tell them what it is really about. Childhood can be rough enough.

[@cambuxton6835]

Oh sorry. I thought it was ring around the Rosie. Not go around the mulberry bush. But my point remains valid. Do not explain the truth to the children until they are older. Let them play and their innocence protect them. Just until they are old enough to learn the truth.

[@dough9512]

My first time on this channel - and I, of course, subscribed!! You do a great service entertaining us AND educating us at the same time! / I grew up in Tokyo in the early 50's and remember this Japanese nursery song sung to "London Bridge is falling down" tune (which surprised me - even to this day): "Mushie mushie, ah no ney, ah no ney, ah no ney. Mushie mushie, ah no ney, ah so diskah". (Spelled the way it sounded) Mushie means hurry, if I remember right. / That wood cut at 7:09 caught my eye: quite an efficient assembly line they had there - first cart with the condemned, second with the casket! The English were a bloodthirsty people back then! Same for the Scots!

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Thank you for your support! 🖤 I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying my channel. It's always fascinating to hear all the different variations in these rhymes from across the globe - thank you for sharing!

[@berniefynn6623]

The rhyme refers to the black plague, circle on the cheek looked like roses and sneezing also a symptom, atishoo atishoo all fall down, ring a ring of roses

[@americanandpinay]

Wrong rhyme. That's "Ring around the Rosies."

[@janetcox4873]

Mulberry bushes is where silk worm larva grow, as well, ...... It's not all morbid.

[@susanbutler2542]

Good evening thank you very much for the great stories. A great big hello from Northern Nevada.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

0:12 absolutely, yes. Ever since I heard my first one.

[@lauradavison4044]

I have read before that the rhyme is about the tree in Wakefield Prison. Also read the the prison is now named "Monster Mansion"

[@jimstewart8122]

This channel, Art Deco and The Why Files are all superb. Streets ahead of television programmes. I wish you many more subs. 61k is far too few.

[@The-Resurrectionists]

Wow thank you, I appreciate your kind words! Thank you for being here :) 🖤

[@lyamainu]

The prison theory makes SO MUCH sense. The song really does capture the monotony of chores, and I can see prisoners being forced to walk around and around and around a tree for their daily exercise.

[@AlOfNorway]

My goodness, England had big and complex prisons before the world had actual criminals. Are you saying these notorious people made hits before hits even existed? Well, can’t say I’m surprised 😂 which makes it even more delightful. Lovely video!

[@lancerevell5979]

The foreign suppliers of the saplings must have gotten a huge laugh, knowing they were selling the King useless trees. 😅

[@paulchambers3142]

I lean towards the prison tale...a chant whilst working but as a reminder that if the work was not completed good enough then the result could be the walk around the Mulberry Bush....with no return. Great work once again! I saw my notification early today but had been away from home until an hour ago.....couldn't wait to hear your newest episode 😊 As a point...this rhym has been said all over the country but silk (I believe) was made in the North...where most of the cloth was made too. I maybe wrong and if so I look forward to your reprimand. ❤ this channel

[@annalisette5897]

I think the simple lyrics may have started with poking fun at James I. How we wash our face, brush our teeth, etc., is like saying everybody is smart enough and trained enough to do these things. But choosing black mulberry instead of white mulberry was very stupid. The simple words say, caring for oneself is something a child knows, but maybe the king lacks even this simple knowledge, so let this rhyme educate him. It would be a creative way to lambaste the king while making it sound like a nursery rhyme, IMO. Over time the lyrics became more complex and meant other things.

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

? I am wondering if you are actually thinking of “ring around the rosy/pockets full of poesy” ? That nursery rhyme, and I say this as a medievalist, references the Black Death as “rosies” were used to describe the buboes that form on the body as the infection spreads, poesies were considered a natural preventative to the plague (it was not of course), and “ashes ashes” and “we all fall down” are references to the massive number of deaths and the inability to give the many thousands dead proper Christian burials.

[@cabellero1120]

Don't you mean " ring around the rosey" A song which referred to a deadly viral sickness? " Pocket full of posey" herbs thought to ward off the plague... " Ashes, Ashes We All fall down!" The plague's deadly toll upon the medieval cities! It was very much a song about death.

[@simongoodwin5253]

Great video yet again. Thank you.

[@The-Resurrectionists]

You're very welcome! I'm so happy you enjoyed it :) 🖤

[@stephenm8100]

I've been told the song originated from a woman's prison. Someone planted a mulberry bush in the middle of the exercise yard. Or some sort of bush. There's other variations.

[@simongee8928]

The joy of the doubtful origins of nursery rhymes is that it's unlikely that any explanation can be proven go be the right one, but that's part of the fun of them - ! 😊

[@Jay-Leigh]

Incredible to think that ii could have been the last thing heard by prisoners while off to be executed. It does give me goosebumps. Thank you for this, it truly is an eye opener.

[@debarkovit]

Love the that the music that plays behind this is the music that that was theme for "Butterflies" which was a 70's Sit Com.

[@kategray9]

There is also a mulberry bush in the playground of Wakefield Girls’ High School also protected and reputed to be very old. One of their buildings is named Mulberry House. A new road in Wakefield is named Mulberry Way as it is near the prison.

[@hvrtguys]

This stuff has all been murdered by education theorists. I learned this stuff when I was a kid but that was 60 years ago. A real pity because it did expose you to the notion that life can be brutal. Some of it does not make sense. Who puts wells at the top of hills?

[@paulwestwood4417]

I think it originated from James the 1st, but then was used at Wakefield prison as an established rhyme. Because the James the 1st rhyme would have been older and more widely used, as Wakefield was only a small community, which would be more difficult to establish. And political satire is more likely to take hold, as proved by other satire rhymes.

[@tpickett1381]

It seem like we learned a version of The Mulberry Bush with Early Monday morning , Tuesday morning ,and so on .ending with the way we go to Church Early Sunday morning walking slower with hands foided prayerfully .

[@thelakeman5207]

"Ring around the rosie" is a rhyme that references living with small pox. It's recognized by the red sore with a ring around it. The nursery rhymes have a sinister story behind them.

[@stevecausier4299]

This is partly correct! It DID first start in Wakefield prison, the prisoners would walk round a courtyard taking exercise. In the middle of the courtyard was the infamous mulberry bush !

[@GrandOldMovies]

Wow, what a fascinating history, either way, I've also heard a version including Pop Goes The Weasel, which I've read is a coded phrase for pawning valuables at a pawn shop. Is there any record as to what happened to all those hundreds, if not thousands, of mulberry trees originally planted by James (and all the nobles who participated in his experiment)? At the very least, they could have made lots of jam!

[@The-Resurrectionists]

If you visit any stately home in England and see a large mature Mulberry; there's a good chance it could be one of those original trees James planted. Presumably, they ate a lot of mulberry jam in the 1600s! I will be doing a video on 'Pop Goes the Weasel' in the near future so I will delve into it then. Thank you for watching and commenting again, I hope you're well :) 🖤

[@balaam_7087]

I haven’t the foggiest as to the true origin of the rhyme, but watching this made me long for the days when trivial offenses were punishable by death. I say bring that bloody code back, and pencil in ‘Elderly neighbor not drawing curtains while undressing’. This is the way I gouge my eyes, gouge my eyes, gouge my eyes…

[@arthurwebber-g4l]

Well you don't have to look, get a life

[@XiaoGuanYin104]

Close your own blinds!!!!

[@ajit8]

Prison exercise involves walking around the prison yard for an hour, and King James has one of his mulberry trees planted in every prison yard.

[@HMOCreations1807]

Well, back to the drawing table! (When planting the wrong trees)😮😁

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

"Ring a ring of roses" is a description of the Black Death, better known as bubonic plague! Many of these rhymes are pretty dark!

[@MorganMalfoy13]

It's the site where the body of a very strict and violent caretaker was buried after she was killed under mysterious circumstances. The children she had abused danced around it, with choruses about the chores she forced them to do so cruelly, washing faces with rough soap that stung their eyes and got in their mouth and were punished for squirming, clothes that caught and tore for which they were also punished, and every other rule she put up. Now she's dead and they are free of her.

[@shellylynn2269]

Wow, I was taught the mulberry Bush song in grade school it included. This is how we wash our hands. This is how we brush our teeth. This is how we brush our hair as like a guide for a good grooming I remember another song all around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel the monkey thought was all in fun pop goes the weasel. The song was sung kinda slowly, and we would all move around the room with chairs, and when the verse said, pop goes the weasel, you have to sit down in one of the chairs.If you didn’t get to a chair you were out, and every time you started the song over a chair was taken away I guess I should state that right from the beginning of the game. There was one less chair then there was students.

[@Angie2343]

@The-Resurrectionists Provide for us the origins of Did you Ever See a Lassie and Pretty Little Dutch Girl, please.

[@annefox6552]

Our words were on a cold and frosty morning. Then this is the way we wash our hands. We sang more words. I don't remember what they were though..Ring a ring of rosies a pocket full of posies. Atishoo Atishoo we all fall down. We were told was about an illness where people started to sneeze a lot. Then dropped down dead..All these nursery Rhymes we played as children, must have had meanings in them. Of what was happening in Communities in those dark day's. When we were children, we played these nursery Rhymes because they were fun..

[@entertherealmofchaos]

But I like Jam... King James

[@dannystaples2832]

Superb. I’ve been interested in and studied folklore for over 50 years ( Iona & Peter Opie!) Great well researched and well crafted videos. Carry on! Trubba not.

[@lemapp]

King James' Mulberry project even made its way to the then newly established Virginia colony. To this day, an island on the James River is called Mulberry Island. It is now completely occupied by the US Army's Fort Eutis. Nearby is Mulberry Point, along where the James ends its long curvy route from the Blue Ridge Mountains. Just down stream is where the US Navy's aircraft carriers are constructed.