When The Bells Pealed "Pop Goes The Weasel"
The enthusiastic bellringer who wrote to " The Listener’ (November 29, page 19) asking that radio should make more use of tha music of bells, sent with his letter a footnote which must be published, although names have to be omitted. He said: When I was sixteen years old-an apprentice to bellringing -I was excluded from church for six months for playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" on the church bells, I remember the Vicar well. He was very stout. He heard the tune in the Vicarage, rushed out, and up 94 steps in a spiral tower. He popped into the belfry nearly bursting, wiping his face with a big red handkerchiet, "Who's that desecrating the church?" he asked. I was caught in the act! The Captain of bellringers said: " This isn’t the church, Vicar, only the tower." 4 Vicar: " Never mind that. What church bell wants ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’ played on it?" Captain: "It won’t do ’em no more harm than lots what’s bin played on ’em before." Vicar: " OR!" Captain: "Yes, we just been playing ‘Come Merry Men and Drink With Me’"! But the Vicar had not recognised the tune.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 77, 13 December 1940, Page 54
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199When The Bells Pealed "Pop Goes The Weasel" New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 77, 13 December 1940, Page 54
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