Pop! Goes the Weasel

So, for whatever reason I had the 'pop! goes the weasel' song stuck in my head, and aside from its Panic! At the Disco style punctuation one other element confused me.

"All around the mulberry bush (or cobbler's bench)
The monkey chased the weasel;
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun,
Pop! goes the weasel."

 
Does the weasel DIE? I guess I always assumed so, since the previous line mentions the monkey thinking it was all fun and games until the weasel spontaneously combusts, apparently. Which I though was a tad morbid for a children's song (although "Ring Around the Rosie" is no picnic either). So I checked it out thanks to my BFF wikipedia and no one actually knows what it means. People have theorized everythinfrom it being slang for craftsmens tools to having something to do with Guy Fawkes' gunpowder plot. Who, I discovered, after more research, was not a selfless soldier for a more fair and equal government like V for Vendetta (great movie) makes him out to be, but a fighter for Spain and the Catholic Church. Weird, right?

Why am I telling you all about this? Because I find it interesting, and goddamn it it's my blog! And I'll write what I want, whether it be mind-numbing L*** A******** rants or intellectually stimulating pieces of trivia. So stuff that in your Trivial Pursuit wedge thing and suck it.