From the recording Pop Goes The Weasel
<p>I really enjoyed the research on this one. Figuired it was a public domain song and had no idea it was so old. There is some history to go with it and it appears to be a drinkin song.</p>
Lyrics
<p style="text-align: center;">Pop Goes The Weasel</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">????1799 or before</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Half a pound of tuppenny rice,<br /> Half a pound of treacle.<br /> That’s the way the money goes,<br /> Pop goes the weasel.<br /> <br /> Up and down the City road,<br /> In and out the Eagle,<br /> That’s the way the money goes,<br /> Pop goes the weasel.<br /> <br /> Every night when I go out<br /> the monkey’s on the table.<br /> Take a stick and knock it off<br /> Pop goes the weasel.<br /> <br /> A penny for a ball of thread<br /> Another for a needle,<br /> That’s the way the money goes,<br /> pop goes the weasel.<br /> <br /> All around the cobblers bench<br /> the monkey chased the people;<br /> The donkey thought ’twas all in fun,<br /> pop goes the weasel.</p>