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"Ring Around the Rosy," a common childhood song and dance, is really about one of the deadliest epidemics in all of history — the Bubonic Plague. It claimed millions of victims. ... The opening words, "Ring around the rosy," represent the skin lesion associated with the disease that appears as a bright red, or rosy,
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What is the origin of the song Ring Around the Rosie and why is it significant to the historical period in which it is written and sung and what are the original lyrics - trivia question /questions answer / answers ... Ring Around The Roses, A pocket full of posies, Tisha! Tisha! ... "The Fellowship Of The Ring" In Song;
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You probably have a vision of children holding hands in a circle, rotating slowly while singing the song, then collapsing in a giggling heap at its conclusion. ... One of the first visible signs of infection were red rings surrounding a rosy bump, all over the victim's body.
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Date: 1/26/2001 3:08:00 PM From Authorid: 8726 I heard this before..most nursary rhimes come for events and ppl such as this..good post ... The first time "Ring Around a Rosy" appeared in print was 1881 - five centures after the plague.
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It was made up in the late 1400's during the Black PLague. "Ring around the Rosy" refers to the rash a person gets at the begining. "A pocketful of posies" People believed that if you carried flowers around and inhlaed their scent when you go out that you were less likely to get the plague.
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Every child has happily joined hands with friends and recited the familiar nursery rhyme, "Ring around a rosie, a pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down." Few people realize to ... How come no contemporaries of Baum — those much closer in time and place to what he was writing about — ever noticed this?
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Here is where our English friends may come in with more information. The rhyme has also been related to smallpox epidemics, the ring around the rosy being application of make ... I am intrigued by a song title in the DT, "Ring-Around-The-Rosy Rag," and look forward to reading the lyrics when the DT-Forum is functioning again.
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Subject: RE: Origins: Ring around the Rosy / Rosey; ... If the African American game song "Green Sally Up" originally had as it's source the British game song "Ring Around The Rosie" ,then it eventually became an entirely different song-as seen by the "Step It Down" version. ... Oh the rabbit in the hash come a-stepping in the dash,
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Ring A Round a Rosy with free downloadable kids song, printable song sheet with lyrics, plus sheet music and activity sheets. ... Sign-up and get Free Song Sheets, Activity Sheets and Music Sheets! ... Ring a round a rosy, Pocket full of posy, First we all fall down and then, Pick ourselves right up again!
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