whats with the ring around the rosies song?

Answer 1

Plague song

Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies
Hush-a, hush-a, we all fall down.

Posies to leave on the bodies as there were only mass graves, we all fall down=we all die.

Answer 2

It avually was a song for the black death or plage a LONG time ago. They used to think if you put posies in your pocket you would be helped by god and could be saved but the disease showed up as a ring. When you had it It also made huge black bubbles on your body and if it got worse you would bleed throught your eyes. so thats the ring around the rosies part and then the pocket full of poses and then the sad part is the ashes ashes we all fall down becuase 85% of the population died. Children sing it today just because it is a catchy tune to it.

Answer 3

Supposedly it's a myth about the bubonic plague.

Wikipedia says:

"In this "plague" interpretation, the first line refers to the round red rash that would break out on the skin of plague victims. It can also refer to when a black ring was 'branded' on infected person's right arm. The second line's "pocket full of posies" would have been a pocket in the garment of a victim filled with something fragrant, such as flowers that aimed to conceal the smell from the sores and the dying people. A second possible explanation for this line is that it referred to the purported belief that fresh-smelling flowers, nosegays, and pomanders would purify the air around them thus warding off disease. A third possibility includes the idea that "posies" are derived from an Old English word for pus, in which case the pocket would be referring to the swelling sore.

"Ashes, ashes" may refer to when people alive and dead were gathered up into piles and lit on fire alive in a belief that burning the diseased bodies would not allow the disease to spread. Several alternate endings to the song exist, one being: "atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down", the theory is that this would refer to the fact that plague sufferers would suffer flu like symptoms before eventually succumbing to death (also, Pneumonic plague had flu like symptoms as well as acute coughing and sneezing). Another is "Husha, Husha, we all fall down.", the word "Husha" being the sound made from the last escaping breath of a dying person, which is generally described as being longer and more sustained than expected. "We all fall down" refers to the fact that everyone is dying. It is believed the American version "ashes, ashes, we all fall down" was an alteration of the original English version because it was more suited to local cultural preferences."

Answer 4

It is song from way back when for kids to sing while playing Ring Around The Rosie. A circle of kids held hands ,walked in a circle sang that song and at the end they all fell down.. Ring around the Rosie a pocket full of posies , ashes to ashes we all fall down. is silly but is what they did .

Answer 5

I think it refered to the plague
the pocket fill of poises was to keep the smell down from the corpses rotting

Answer 6

it refers to the plague and the 'we all fall down' part means the people dying in droves its disturbing because its now a popular childrens rhyme.