Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are wrote about childhood, saying:
People say “Oh Mr Sendak! I wish I were in touch with my childhood self, like you” as if it were all quaint and succulent, like Peter Pan. Childhood is cannibals and psychopaths vomiting in your mouth.
I don’t really know if it has much to do with Gary Larson’s childhood, but I just love finding an opportunity to bring up that quote.
there is a song called here we go round the mulberry bush
in a different song, a weasel goes pop
neither song has a monkey
Did Larsson get his songs mixed up? Did he learn different versions from me? Is this from the nursery song cinematic universe and the monkey is from a third song? What’s going on here?
There is a version of the jack-in-the-box song that starts with “all around the mulberry bush the monkey chased the weasel” and ends with “pop goes the weasel”. That’s the version I heard growing up
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