You know how ring around the rosie is made because of the Black Plague...?

Question

Are there any other kids songs that were made because of some thing that happened?

Answer 1

When they had to get rid of the bodies due to the plaque, they would burn them in piles in front of the hospital. They used dries flowers to help mask the odor. Granted their were no little kids singing and holding hands and going in circles. But the song does originate from that event.
There are many children songs that have dark or strange and even mean origins. For instance "Pop Goes The Weasel" is a song that is racist against Irish people. It tells the story about how the Irish folks would go to the pub after work so desperate for a drink that they would sell the very home they lived in to the pub just to get another drink.
On a more positive note if you really listen to the words found in a lot of ***** spirituals you can hear a code. The slaves would sing at carefully planned times of the day so that any slaves attempting to escape via the underground railroad, could hear which direction to go and when it's safe to head out in that direction. They would be guided by the songs being sung.

Answer 2

Ring Around the Rosy Rhyme

Origins of "Ring around the rosy" in English History

Connections to the Bubonic Plague (Black Death)?
The words to the Ring around the rosy children's ring game have their origin in English history . The historical period dates back to the Great Plague of London in 1665 (bubonic plague) or even before when the first outbreak of the Plague hit England in the 1300's. The symptoms of the 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! The death rate was over 60% and the plague was only halted by the Great Fire of London in 1666 which killed the rats which carried the disease which was transmitting via water sources. The English version of "Ring around the rosy" replaces Ashes with (A-tishoo, A-tishoo) as violent sneezing was another symptom of the disease. We recommend the following site for comprehensive information regarding the Bubonic Plague.
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-black-plague-elizabethan-era.htm

Views of the Sceptics
The connection between this Rhyme was made by James Leasor in 1961 in his non-fiction book ' The Plague and the Fire. Some people are sceptical of the plague interpretations of this rhyme, many stating that words in the rhyme cannot be found in Middle English. The sceptics must be referring to the later version of the rhyme, possibly with American origins, the English version is "Ring a ring o' rosies" using the Middle English "o" as a shortening of the word "of". The written word " posies" is first mentioned in a poem called 'Prothalamion or A Spousal Verse' by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). We believe that this addresses the views of the sceptics.


If you really want to know basically all of our modern fairy tails and nursry rhymes are edited and made to have a nice happy ending. The original versions were many times written to warn children about something. http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html
this is a link to the original version of the little mermaid for and example. So not like the disney version at all.

Answer 3

They used to make posies, which were called nosegays...
In the days of the plague and even later women had these as they walked about the streets as they stank...
To my knowledge the Black Plague was the original meaning of this rhyme...
RING - A - RING - A - ROSES

Ring-a-ring-a-roses
A pocket full of posies..
Atishoo ! Atishoo !
We all fall down..

Picking up the daisies
Picking up the daisies..
Atishoo ! Atishoo !
We all stand up..

Blessed Be... )O(

Answer 4

That's an urban legend--Ring Around the Rosie has nothing to do with the Black Plague.

Answer 5

After college, i replaced into on the mall and there replaced into this guy approximately my age (in highschool) who replaced into handicapped and in a wheelchair and he replaced into along with his mom. He stored smiling at me and stated hi to me in the cutest way, it made me incredibly satisfied :) I hate whilst all people is recommend to human beings like that, that is terrible.

Answer 6

The London bridge fell down because a couple of long ships pulled it down.. So I have heard.

Answer 7

Yeah, they say that most of the nursery rhymes we know were clandestine political/social commentaries. A whole slew of them here:

http://www.rooneydesign.com/HickoryDickoryDock.htm

Answer 8

I think they made one about a primate running around some shrubbery. All around the mulberry bush hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm hm hm