Ring Around the Rosie

[VioletPromise13]

Love how creepy it really is. Ring around the rosie: a red ring forms around the place where people got bit. Pocket full of posies: to avoid the smell, to avoid the plague. Ashes, ashes: perhaps some burned their dead or anything really. Perhaps what is left of thier life is only ashes. We all fall down: no matter who you are, peasant or noble, commoner or king, it made no difference. Everyone falls down to death.

[slaminblades]

I want to have fun just like everyone but this song has a dark origin.

[VioletFlame1993]

Everyone: Doesn't mean that families can't have fun with it :D

[mindlessb1380108]

sry the first line meant that you get a red rash mark that looks like a ring when you get the plauge

[mindlessb1380108]

"ring around the rosie"

you give roses to someones grave.

"a pocket full of posies"

thats what they held to try and prevent the black death

"ashes, ashes"

they burned the dead bodies

"we all fall down"

they get ill, fall down, and die

thats the true meaning. freaky right?

[rAdziu993]

It's not about bubonic plague!!!!1 It's about kennedy assassination!!!!2 Wikipedia is lying!!!3 Where is my tinfoil?4

[bunny1rabbit]

@rAdziu993 ring around the rosie is about the plague. the ring is after the flea off a rat bites you, pockets full of posies is to keep in their pocket to ward off sickness, ashes ashes is the person being executed (they were sick with a disease that took almost 50% of europe), and they all fall down is the death.

[rAdziu993]

@bunny1rabbit My previous comment was a joke.Are You 100% sure that this is the true meaning of this?Or maybe it have no connection to the bubonic plague at all?I do not know for sure.Do You?

[bunny1rabbit]

@rAdziu993 it's 100% the real meaning.

[mikey101923]

ring around the rosies(what u usually bring 2 a grave) pocket full of posies(also common flower 2 bring) ashes ashes(as some 1 would be burned when dead) we all fall down(u fall down when u die) so basically its a gigantic death song

[mikey101923]

pumped up kicks is also a death song

[mikey101923]

i know right i agree with frenzy

[birdsaflyin]

you know, if you are a parent you know how sweet this game is~~~~ as we get older, we can come to understand its true meaning and honor those who died, but when the kids are little, really, the community is more important

[WhiteDomination101]

Ohh soo cute

[randomtoodles]

awee cute little kids singing about the bubonic plague...

[GxDStatus]

did you know that this song was made during the holocaust in a German death camp by jewish children?

Ashes ashes, we all fall down, after gassed they were then creamted.....

Very scary song if you take it in the same type of contex

[ManlnCognito]

@GxDStatus That is not true my friend, this rhyme is It’s from the 1300’s. It's about the black death or the plague.

[AngoraFish]

not about the black death, google 'ring around the rosy snopes'

[trampoline5513]

Ring around the rosie meaning the first visual sign of the black plague. Pocket full of posie meaning people putting flowers in there pockets to stop the smell of the black plague. Ashes Ashes meaning the creamation of the deceased from black plague and we all fall down meaning the plague is unstopable and everyone will eventually die.

[ShibaNamedChewy]

hehe thats cute <3

[Ribjaw9000]

this song was about the black death that killed 20 million people in 1348

[deathringer2000]

youhave a higher voice but a bit similar to will ferrell

[MOHAMMED1756]

what is this ring around

[DigitalGunStudios]

black death the plague

[sanditecheer]

Actually the lyrics are "achoo, achoo" to represent the symptom of sneezing.

[uiop666]

@sanditecheer I thought that but I read that the atishoo part is used more in England :)

[Pinkpiggy45251]

@sanditecheer

You're half right there. There are many different versions of this rhyme for kids that have changed over the years. Some versions are "a tissue a tissue" to represent the violent and deadly sneezing. some versions it is "ashes ashes" to represent the creamtion of the victims' bodies, burning of their houses, and blackening of their skin when they catch the deadly sickness. and some versions it is "achoo achoo" to represent the violent sneezing and coughing.

[KaosxoAngelxo]

@Pinkpiggy45251 what about Husha Husha? I never heard the version ashes ashes...I was taught with the Husha Husha

[Pinkpiggy45251]

@KaosxoAngelxo

The term "Ashes ashes" came from the words, "Husha Husha" that indicated stopping the ring and becoming silent.

[TheTailen]

@Pinkpiggy45251 ikr!? it'strue meaning is really gruesome! when i first found out what those words really stood for, i was shocked, because i remember countless times when i sang it...

[LifeOfAZSuperman01]

@TheTailen It's funny when you think about it.. Several of the songs we sang as kids had dark meanings. Including "Ring Around the Rosie" "Sing a Song of Sixpence" and "Little Jack Horner."

[TheTailen]

@LifeOfAZSuperman01 ik! i think it actually a little scary. we kids from all timelines have a really dark imagination! jeez

[TheTailen]

@LifeOfAZSuperman01 its actually kind of creepy... but thats all cool w/ me, cuz i LOVE creepy stuff!

[SaraRuttan]

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[WolfeDen89]

So what frenzyXprime! We all have played this game and sung the song. I came here to show my 2 yr. old granddaughter.

The symptoms of the bubonic plague included a rosy red rash in the shape of a ring on the skin (Ring around the rosy). Pockets and pouches were filled with sweet smelling herbs ( or posies) which were carried due to the belief that the disease was transmitted by bad smells. The term "Ashes Ashes" refers to the cremation of the dead bodies.

[frenzyXprime]

Not to be mean but Ring Around the Rosie is about the Black Death.

[draconite420]

@frenzyXprime us europeans kinda keep history through this method :P

its not a bad thign kids been singing that for decades

[cutekittypop]

@frenzyXprime i did a reaport bout ring around the rosie LOL

[tw1st422]

@frenzyXprime ring arround the rosie is older than the black death, the lyrics just happened to match the tragedy

[tiffanidyer10]

@frenzyXprime ikr !!

[havenyates]

@frenzyXprime An interesting article on Snopes states that as false. It surprised me. I've always accepted it as the Black Death song because that's what I was taught. Bottom line, I guess, is, it doesn't mean that to the kids. It's a little like getting into the origins of Halloween, but that's another topic.

[TAFFIEBARB]

yay