Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush is a familiar nursery rhyme and singing game.

This a Mulberry tree. During the spring it causes allergic reaction around the country. This is a flowerless tree so the pollen is fine to allow transportation by any means necessary. The pollen is sticky and fine. These factors result in bad allergies for those who suffer. 

Do you recognize the song Here we go round the Mulberry Bush? 

Wonder where it originated? Read On!

This is the most common 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.
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning.

This song is to have originated in 1840 and historian R. S. Duncan claims, a former governor of England’s Wakefield Prison, the song originated with that 420-year-old institution’s female prisoners, who were exercised around a mulberry tree. Which is probably not the connotation your six-year-old self had in mind.