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Pop Goes the Weasel (2) 
Pop Goes the Weasel (2) 
1. Roond aboot the parritch pot, Fechtin for the theevil, 
That's the way the money goes, Pop goes the Weasel! 
My wee boy's a bonny wee boy, Your wee boy's a deevil; 
That's the way the money goes, Pop goes the Weasel! 

2. Up and doon Jamaica Street,

 Riding on an Eagle; That's the [way the money goes, Pop goes the weasel.] 

3. The hireies roond the porridge pot, Lickin' at the theavil; That's the wey the meal's sae dear, Pop goes the weasel! 

(1) Nicht at Eenie (1932), 34; Montgomerie SNR (1946), 94 (no. 116), with music. Cf. Ritchie Singing Street (1964), 104, "My wee wife's a bonny wee wife" etc. St. 2 reversed in Rymour Club Misc. I (1906-11), 123: "Your wee man's a bonnie wee man,/ My wee man's a deevil" etc. (from Crawford). 

(2) Rymour Club, ibid.; used for "deedling" when dancing. Identical version as a skipping rhyme from Glasgow, in MacColl, Streets of Song no. 26: "High stepping or trotting during first line of song, changing to both feet together on second and fourth lines." 

(3) Rymour Club, 176 (2 lines), "On Dear Meal"; "Common in Forfar loom-shops long ago". Rodger Lang Strang (1948), 6, has "Roond aboot the porridge pot". Ritchie Golden City (1965), 19, has 2 versions, one close to the English [Half a pound o' tuppeny rice] and another more individual [Every night when I go home/ Monkey's on the 

table] sung for a (sort of) dance, where the girl who is out goes between a pair holding hands, takes the hands of the girl she faces, and they sing and dance to the rhyme; the other girl now goes and intervenes in another couple. 
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