9 Jolly Nursery Rhymes With Deeply Disturbing Meanings

8. Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

Mulberry Bush
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.
 
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