quotidienne: coffee + toast 4:25

i woke up late
but
i don't know if i should be proud of this
before i made toast, which i'm about to go do
i just spent a bunch of time researching the mulberry question
because i watched the beginning first too

i'm gonna go make toast, i'll be back

ok i'm back

apparently you clasp hands, however many of you there are
and do a ring dance around the tree
they aren't bushes
it was originally bramble bush
but that was hard to say
and it was switched to mulberry
possibly also related to the silk trade
silk worms go with mulberry trees

the rhyme may have been used originally
as an exercize song for a women's prison
which had a mulberry tree in the yard
although that seems inconsistent with the bramble bush story
my suspicion is that the bramble bush song was first
the prison warden heard it and used it as an exercize song
and was the first one to write about it, creating the first written record of it
there are a bunch of verses
about this is the way we wash the socks
or whatever
and they have break out groups demonstrate that
apparently also in the children's game

so
you dance around until you are done with the verses
which ends with something about a frosty morning
which is apparently some commentary
on the silk trade being bad that year (sheesh)
and then you go back to prison
or school
whatever

it's like the hokey pokey or go you chicken fat