And I was taught in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. Our family was originally from Northern Scotland. My mother was born in 1921 and she was taught her nursery rhymes by her mother and she in turn taught me. I then looked up Ring-a-round the Rosies I was taught to say and sing it by my mother as the following: I found your web site looking for the words to To Bed to bed said sleepy head and then I just started to browse. (chanting) Down at the bottom of the deep blue seaĪ-one, a-two, a-three! (jump back up on three) Or perhaps you haven't yet posted it! Anyway, this is how we used to do it (and speaking to others from around Britain) they all did the same: I was just browsing your site and noticed you don't seem to have the second verse of Ring a Roses. Sneezing was the first symptom, after that you quickly died (fell down)! Posies and nosegays were carried as a defence against catching plague. The plague in Britain lasted well into the 17th Century So this version seems to refer to it. Please disregard if you know but it's bugging me they sing the wrong one and remove the warning children need to learn to stay away from sneezing people haha and history is learned this way better than reading.
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I Downloaded a copy of an American version of Ring a Ring a Rosie and the lyrics said Rosie and ashes ashes we all fall down?Ī pocket full of posies (To take the smell off the corpse) A tissue a tissue we all fall down (The symptoms started with sneezing then they die) Somewhere I heard/read that the first verse referred to the plague and ensuing death implied in the 'all fall down', the second verse referred to resurrection after the death. 'Ashes on the water, ashes on the Sea, we all jump up with a one, two, three!' "When my daughter was in nursery school in a village in Oxfordshire, England in 1977 she sang a second verse to 'Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down!'. In the northern counties of England the children use the words, 'Hushu! Hushu!' in the third line."
Green noted, " Ring A-Ring O' Roses, is known in Italy and Germany. Green's book, A History of Nursery Rhymes (printed in London in 1899): It's an interesting part of the history of this song, that most people believe it's connected to the plague.
Thanks to Steven for sending me his version and comments about this song. They get a ring of spots or inflammation (the ring of rosies), try to stop catching or passing it on by carrying a "pocket full of posies", start to sneeze ("A'Tishoo A'Tishoo") and then "fall down" dead. I find it interesting because it dates from the time of the Great Plague (1665) and is about what happens to people who catch it. "I notice that your site has some great, obscure rhymes on it from England but is missing one of the best known and (to me) historically interesting: Ring-a-ring o' Rosies. It shows what most people believe about this song: It's the first version of this song found in print. Here's the Kate Greenaway version from her book "Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes" (1881).
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