Pop Goes the Weasel

"Pop! Goes the Weasel" (Roud 5249) is a traditional old English song, a country dance, nursery rhyme, and singing game that emerged in the mid-19th century.
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The tradition

"Pop! Goes the Weasel" (Roud 5249) is a traditional old English song, a country dance, nursery rhyme, and singing game that emerged in the mid-19th century. The melody is often used in jack-in-the-box toys and is frequently played by ice cream trucks.

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Pop Goes the Weasel is folk song, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1

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Cite: “Pop Goes the Weasel.” folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/pop-goes-the-weasel — text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
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