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Half a pound of tuppenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle,
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
Up and down the City road,
In and out the Eagle,
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
“Pop! Goes the Weasel” is an English nursery rhyme and singing game.
The rhyme may have originated in the 18th century, and mentions The Eagle tavern on London’s City Road, which stopped being a pub in 1825, until rebuilt in 1901 and is still extant.
A boat named “Pop Goes The Weasel” competed in the Durham Regatta in June 1852, but it was in December of that year that “Pop Goes The Weasel” first came to prominence as a social dance in England
Source: Wikipedia