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Ring around the Rosie, A pocket full of Posies, Ashes Ashes we all fall down.
Ring around the Rosie is a children's song sung with smiling, laughing and hand-holding, but did you know it actually has very morbid roots? In the 13th century, the Black Death (also called the Black Plague) killed so many people, many thought it was the end of the world. The nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie" came about during the time of the Black Death.
Here are what the lyrics mean:
Ring around the rosie is a reference to the black sores that would appear on your body as part of the plague. Your "rosie" is around the center of the back of your hand.
A pocket full of posies is a reference to people would carrying posies (flowers) around to not smell the sickening scent of dead bodies everywhere.
Ashes Ashes signifies the ashes from all the bodies being burned on pyres. Bodies couldn't be buried or else the infection would spread.
We all fall down signifies death.
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What children's song orginated because of the plague?
"Ring around the rosie" originated because of the plauge.
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The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosies" or alternately called "Ring a Ring o' Roses," is not about a specific year. It is purported to be about a disease called the plague, which was around for many years during the Middle Ages, but this explanation has been more recently thought to be mistaken.
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