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Uploaded by on Sep 7, 2009

Abby playing Ring Around the Rosie with 3 of her cousins at the Fort Bridger Rendezvous.

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

  • @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.

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  • 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.

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

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

  • @rAdziu993 it's 100% the real meaning.

  • @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?

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

  • "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 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.

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

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