Anyone know ??

I only know the four letter ones I use when it slips off one arm when I'm not looking.

;-)

naughty naughty..lol

cher

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Cher! I Googled and tried to find out, because this is interesting! We have a song in Norway, and I wondered if there was a song in English. I am sure there is! There is an answer thet leads to a news/discussion group; and there is a message:

"I think there's an old, old song that children would sing while winding yarn - does anyone recall hearing this? Rachel "

I do have that in a book somewhere, but there maybe more than one rhyme for that.

Hang in there I will have a look, this is from the bookHomespun handicrafts by Ella Shannon bowles 1931

Here is one Niddy Noddy, Niddy Noddy Two heads with one body

When I'm a grown-up woman, with my hair up on my head I'ill sit and sew tell very late and never go to bed.

and this one is out of Certrude Whiting, Old-time tools and toys of needlework.

A knitting Rhyme

Where's the cat whose twisted cradle All the children, young and old, Have been making-still are making- will be making-turn and fold, twist, and slip, and turn, and double, till the very world is old.

Both books were found at seconds tables in Book City, Toronto, years ago and both were reissues in the seventies.

Els

The one I heard was used, I learned as a nursery rhyme:

All around the mulberry bush, The monkey chased the weasel, The monkey thought is was all for fun, PoP goes the weasel.

Allededly if you did this right, the word POP marked a yard wound.

Half a pound of tupperny rice Half a pound of treacle That's the way the money goes POP goes the weasel:)

Our "second verse" was

A penny for a spool of thread A penny for a needle That's the way the money goes Pop goes the weasel!

=Tamar

The way I learned this song was

All around the carpenters bench The monkey chased the weasel The monkey thought it was all in fun POP goes the weasel.

A penny for a spool of thread A penny for a needle Thats the way the money goes POP goes the weasel.

Don't know why it was a carpenters bench in my family. LOL Marie and the cats

Sorry: that should be All around the COBBLERS bench

Marie and the cats

That's great Els, thankyou... Now I'll copy that to the back of my weaving work book...

Cheers....Cher

There was yet another verse wasn't there, about

In and out the easel

or something......Cher

splutter....morning cuppa all down my p.j's now....omg crying here....lol

Cher

As far as I recall the second verse goes

Up and down the City Road In and out the Eagle That's the way the money goes Pop goes the weasel

I always thought (don't know where I got it from, my East End Londoner Mum maybe) that this referred to the City Road in East London, and the Eagle was the pub, which was where the money went !! Love Christine

PS just found this website with info

Here is a list of words, one of which may be the answer to the original question:

bobbin, card, distaff, spindle

David

We said "carpenter's bench" also. The third line was different, though, and I can't remember what it was.

The mulberry bush was used in a different song, "here we go round the mulberry bush ... [three times] ... so early in the morning. T

Hang in there I will have a look, this is from the bookHomespun handicrafts by Ella Shannon bowles 1931 Here is one Niddy Noddy, Niddy Noddy Two heads with one body When I'm a grown-up woman, with my hair up on my head I'll sit and sew tell very late=A0and never go to bed.

ahhhhh but......a niddy noddy has two heads, it's a piece of wood baton, with off set dowels at each end....the heads...but only one body... In those days they had to spin their own yarn, or get someone to do it for them...bet that was a price too..

cheers....Cher

oohhhhh yes Eagle, not Easel Cher you dim wit...lol

cher

oh this is the way we comb our hair comb our hair comb our hair this is the way we comb our hair on a cold and frosty morning....lol All the littleones at nursery schools all in a circle doing the actions lol

Cher