Pop Goes the Weasel guitar tab
The English dance tune in 6/8, with the “pop” on the fifth fret.
- Level
- Beginner melody
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 6/8
- Tempo
- ♩. = 72
- Tuning
- Standard, EADGBE
Pop Goes the Weasel
Traditional · arranged by guitarnotation
How to play it
- Count two groups of three in each bar: “all a-round the mul-ber-ry bush” is C C D D, a quarter and an eighth, twice.
- Bar 2, “mulberry bush”, hops E G E C: open first string, third fret, open, then the first fret of the second string.
- The “pop” in bar 7 is the A at the fifth fret of the first string, held for a dotted quarter, then D and F fall away from it.
About the song
An English tune from the 1850s, first a dance and then a nonsense song. Nobody knows for sure what the weasel was.
The melody is in the public domain. This arrangement is ours, and you're welcome to download, print and play it for your own practice.
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