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.
You thought this was just a catchy tune for children to skip around small shrubbery to? Nope. Local historian R.S Duncan suggests that the song originated from female prisoners at HMP Wakefield. A sprig was taken from Hatfield Hall in Stanley, Wakefield, which grew into a fully mature mulberry tree around which prisoners exercised in the moonlight.