I just learned it in my history class. Here it goes...
It's about the Bubonic Plague. It took out 1/3 of the people in Europe years back.
"Ring around the roseie"...
In the disease, you would have rings around you. Especially around your pinkie. Which they used to call the roseie.
"Pocket full of posies"...
Posies are flowers (duh)...and the smell was to take away the smell of the dead (like a past lysol)
"Ashes, Ashes"...
When people died of this desease, they had to burn their body in stead of burying it so the desease wouldn't spread from the dead body.
And I think you can figure out the "We all fall down" part.
Now you'll think twice before you sing that...
2007-12-06 11:01:53 · 71 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Just to let everybody know, this isn't to 'get anybody down' or 'try to be a know it all' or anything like that. This is just some intresting stuff that I thought was intresting. Please don't be rude by saying something like, you already knew that. I mean, you can say it, but not in an 'you think you're all that, I know that too'. Ookee...enjoy!!!
2007-12-06 11:03:52 · update #1
Ken E- O cool! I didn't know that. I guess my teach er was wrong about that.
2007-12-06 11:13:34 · update #2
Change that- thanks everybody who told us a different version in a positive way. Teachers can't always be right I guess. lol.
2007-12-06 11:16:44 · update #3
it is true
cool isnt it
2007-12-06 11:03:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
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I just learned it in my history class. Here it goes...
It's about the Bubonic Plague. It took out 1/3 of the people in Europe years back.
"Ring around the roseie"...
In the disease, you would have rings around you. Especially around your pinkie. Which they used to call the...
2015-08-14 19:49:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah those nursery rhymes are depressing and derogatory.
More examples:
Georgie Porgie - Based on adultery
London Bridge Is Falling Down - Viking War
Jack and Jill - Beheadings during the 'Reign of Terror'
2007-12-06 11:13:15 · answer #3 · answered by Nina1999 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know that...it is creepy, isn't it? And I didn't know there was anything like that about Rock a Bye Baby until I read it in the guy above's answer.
Ever read Grimms Faery Tales? You might also find those interesting...I did :o
2007-12-06 11:07:22 · answer #4 · answered by Criss_Mousse 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, that's pleasant.
I knew that there was some creepy thing about "Ring Around the Rosie", but I didn't know what it was. .....
2007-12-06 11:10:03 · answer #5 · answered by moviemaster228 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of kids' songs date from tragic events. "Little Sally Water" was a slave song. "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was about Mary Queen of Scots. Makes you think twice, but then again, it shows how much we've survived and it's pretty amazing that these kids songs have been passed along all these years, don't you think?
2007-12-06 11:08:04 · answer #6 · answered by Ruby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother learned this in school years ago and told me about it. It really freaked me out. His version was a bit different thought. From what I can remember at least.
But I think your version makes a lilttle bit more sense.
Isn't it scary that a song was made about it?
2007-12-06 11:10:10 · answer #7 · answered by basmusiq 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahaha thats true, thats exactly where that rhyme came from. it is kinda creepy huh? I do remember that "ashes ashes" was because they used ashes from fireplaces to absorb the weeping open wounds or "ring around the rosy". The ring was a bluish, black, purple ring with a red, pinkish center like welts and those who were brave enough to care for the sick and dying used ash to soak up the pus from the wounds.
2007-12-06 11:08:46 · answer #8 · answered by Brass Hat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya surprisingly i knew that, its pretty creepy that they made a song about a disease, don't you think its pretty weird? Well ya i knew and by the way the way i learned was watching a movie (that sucked) lol, and it gave the history of the song before the movie. I then searched it on the internet and it kreeped me out, do u know amityville horror is real?
2007-12-06 11:07:05 · answer #9 · answered by candigurl901 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tis true. A loy of our older nursery rhymes, and the like, had unexpected bachgrounds.
For example, The Hokey Cokey was originally the Church of England taking the pee out of the catholics and the whole genuflection thing.
Keep digging and there is some wierd stuff out there. ;-)
2007-12-06 11:07:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they should make a creepy movie based on ring around the rosie.. i'd watch it..
2007-12-06 11:07:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋