Treasuring Poetry: Meet Poet and Author Abbie Johnson Taylor #WordPressWednesday #Reblogs #Inspiration

 

Thanks to fellow author Robbi Cheadle for featuring me on her blog today. After reading this, I suggest you check out some of her other offerings. Enjoy!

Treasuring Poetry: Meet Author and Poet Abbie Johnson Taylor

 

Dark Origins – Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush #SocialMediaMonday

Have you ever wondered what inspired this nursery rhyme? Well, fellow blogger Robbie Cheadle​ offers some ideas. I can’t think of a better way to start the week, even if you’re not literally dancing around a mulberry bush on a frosty morning.

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Do you know the nursery rhyme Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush?

I remember it from when I was a girl. The girls used to hold hands and dance in a circle singing the lyrics and doing the actions.

These are the first two stanzas of the most modern version:

Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
On a cold and frosty morning.

This is the way we wash our face,
Wash our face,
Wash our face.
This is the way we wash our face
On a cold and frosty morning.

The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell, an English Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collection of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales, as an English children’s game in the mid-nineteenth century.

The song and associated game are traditional in England and different…

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