17 years ago
Suzianne
Ring around the rosey,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
The story behind this rhyme is that during the plague in London, people carried little bouquets of flowers to hold to their noses to filter out the horrid odor of burning bodies...bodies that were being burnt in the streets to prevent further spreading of the black death. Hence, ashes and people taking sick and falling down. A sad and terrible time, memorialzed by a sweet little verse.
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17 years ago
mrsgavanrossem
I knew it as 'Ring-a-ring of roses/A pocket full of posies/A-tishoo! A-Tishoo!/We all fall down.'
It's supposed to derive from the plague years - plague being spread so quickly that a sneeze from your neighbour could be very harmful - and a supersitition that carrying flowers might protect you. A relict of that superstition exists (or did until recently) when English circuit judges carried a small posy of flowers on the way to their lodgings at their first attendance at the local assizes.
You'll find it quoted in John Aubrey's Brief Lives, though whose life I can't remember.
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17 years ago
Greg J
Ring around the rosies
A pocket full of posies
A tissue A tissue we all fall down
Cows are in the meadow
Eating all the grass
A tissue A tissue we all jump up
did you know that this is about the black plague?
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/ring_around_the_rosy.htm
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17 years ago
kittycat_cc14
The whole thing is;
'Ring around the rosies
A pocket full of posies
A tissue A tissue we all fall down
Cows are in the meadow
Eating all the grass
A tissue A tissue we all jump up'
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17 years ago
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Ring around the rosie
Pocket full of posie's
Ashes, ashes we all fall down.
Supposedly written after the Black Plague, they had to basically burn the whole city down to kill the virus.
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6 years ago
Anonymous
that's so previous! lol, shall we see if i visit save in ideas...: jack and jill, went up the hill, to fetch some marjuana, jack were given extreme, unziped his fly and reported jill do u wanna, jill reported definite, unziped her dress, and then they'd some relaxing, yet stupid jill, forgot the pill, and now they have a son. lol--i have not reported that in years =D ...it truly is a ill nursery rhyme >.<
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17 years ago
Anonymous
Posies, a tissue a tissue we all fall down.
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17 years ago
kackaway
Posies, Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
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17 years ago
Anonymous
posies, ashes ashes we all fall down! come on you knew that one
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17 years ago
mf mf mf mf mf fmf mf mfmfmfmfmf
what a terrible nursery rhyme about death and disease i would never allow my child to even say it.
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