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Probably not.
It is widely believed that Ring A Ring Of Roses is about the Bubonic Plague, which devastated England in the 1300s and the 1600s.
Some people think the rhyme can be understood in this way:
'Ring around the rosies,' = When people had the black death they got rings of pustules around their fingers
'A pocket full of posies," = Posies are flowers. The dead bodies of the black death victims smelled really bad, so they put posies in the corpse's pockets to mask the smell.
'Atishoo! Atishoo!' = One of the symptoms of the black death is sneezing a lot and coughing up blood.
'We all fall down,' = Self explanatory, really. They all fell down. They died.
However, as this idea didn't emerge until the mid-twentieth century, and there is no evidence to support it, it is very likely false.
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What songs arose about the disease?
You are probably thinking about the song Ring a ring of roses. Which is supposed to be about the Black Death, but as this song did not originated until the 18th century, this is impossible.
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