Also silver bells and cockle shells likely refer to types of actual flowers that were popular adornments for graves. It likely had more to do with her death count and less to deal with torture.
I've always heard it's referring to the plague. But different aspects to different words. Ashes referring to cremation or them using ashes as a way they thought would cure the sores. The posies being used to cover up the bad odors from the dead and dying. Everything else is pretty much the same. The wording, I think, is just different from the U.K. and United States.
Collin Campbell "Ring around the rosie a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down." that's the one I heard- :I and I used to think it was about a bunch of people who went to hell. but y'know, whatever...
Lavender Alexandra 1D Well sorry, my friend told me it, I didn’t see a comment. Also, get tf off of my comment if it wasn’t as good as the others like wtf
when you think about it, even kids movies are messed up. like 'finding nemo' heres the plot A serial killer brutally murders a mother and almost all of her children while her husband watches, leaving only one child alive. The father raises his only remaining son, who as a result of the killer’s attack is born with a physical impairment. One day, the son is taken from his father and kept as a prisoner in a foreign land. The father must travel far from home to find him and can only rely on the aid of a mentally-handicapped woman for help
In elementary school my friends use to say "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a golden leaf jack fell down and split his pants and Jill said where's the beef" smh😆😃 Smh memories😆
Yep I learned that too! I learned a lot more alternate nursery rhymes as well....Hickory dickory dock three mice run up the clock, the clock struck one and the other two got away with minor injuries! Mary had a little lamb it's fleece was black as charcoal, every time it jumped the fence you'd see it's little arse hole! Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffit eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider and sat down beside her, and she said f#%k off hairy legs. Roll, roll, roll your joint, twist it at the end. Take a puff, that's enough, and pass it to a friend. Hey diddle diddle, the cat did a piddle, all over the bedside clock. The dog laughed, to see such fun,... And died of electric shock.
Seems like every nursery rhyme has a dark meaning. Rockabye Baby is probably the most disturbing... My mum sang that to me often when she was trying to get me to sleep... And it always worked.
What's the other one with Mockingbird that would creep me out 'hush little baby don't say a word mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird' which clearly mean 'shut up or you will die' cuz weren't mockingbirds deadly (I edited it cuz it auto corrected *gonna* to *going to*
Humpty dumpty sat on a wall Humpty dumpty had a great fall Someone say's humpty dumpty is a cannon place on a wall when it had a great fall no one can't fix it's again. But humpty dumpty represent the ROMAN EMPIRE when the roman empire fell no one can fix it's again.
Don't forget about the old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what to do...so she beat the shit out of them so they would cry themselves to sleep. I think that's pretty disturbing.
Yes. Queen Mary I was known as Bloody Mary (there's a book about her with that title). She had more people put to death (often by burning at the stake) during the miserable five years of her religiously fanatical reign to make England Catholic again than her half-sister Elizabeth I did during the entire next 45 years of her reign. Queen Elizabeth I had two women named Mary in her life: the religious fanatic Mary I who died of uterine or ovarian cancer in 1558, and then Mary, Queen of Scots (another Catholic whose additional reason to overthrow the English queen included reinstating Catholicism to England), her cousin who plotted and schemed to overthrow Elizabeth I. After some 19 years of plots by Mary and her followers, Elizabeth finally signed the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587. If you don't have thirty years to read biographies and histories about the five generations of Tudors that started with the affair of the Welshman Owen ap Meredith ap Tydier with the widow Catherine of Valois and ended with the death of Queen Elizabeth I, there are Wikipedia pages about all of them and the major players in their lives. Of them all, Queen Elizabeth I has the most complex and interesting personality.
It's raining It's pouring The old man is snoring. He bumped his head When he went to bed And he couldn't get up in the morning Basically saying it was raining he slipped fell and hit his head got a concision went to bed and died in his sleep
in iceland, we have a nursery rhyme called "sofðu unga ástin mín" or "sleep my young love". it's about a woman who, rather than to let the baby be killed by the harsh winter, drowns it in a nearby lake. "sofðu unga ástin mín" is sung softly as to calm the child while it's drowning.
Huh, that stupid humanity. If we ever start hurting like hell or get in a comma, those cry-babies would put us to sleep cus its the most flipping "human" thing to do... Sh*t.
ELbabotas Shinigami it's an old folktale. the song is about how the woman has absolutely no other choice than to drown the baby and just how sad mortified she is about the whole thing. drowning, in icelandic culture, is considered a very good death. the cold however, is not.
þetta er ekki rör þetta er fallbyssa oh I read a fanfic where the Icelandic character from Hetalia sang that to the Harry Potter characters. They all flipped when they figured out what it meant.
My teacher told me about the ring a ring a roses one and I was like 11 at the time and I used to sing it all the time when I was little but not I don't like it means: Ring a ring a roses, There's are things in your skin that look likes roses A pocket full of poesies, You made the flowers to keep u safe Atitue atitue, When you sneeze you could die We all fall down, You all die Ashes in the water, they burnt them and put ashes in the water Ashes in the sea, same with water We all jump up in a 1 2 3, you rise to heaven Plz like this took forever
It was the ring around the rosies one aka the American version it was about the great fire of London since it says "ashes, ashes and we all fall down." And the original rosies one is about the plague. And so the rosies one that says "ashes, ashes we all fall down." Is about the plague ending with the great fire. Your welcome :D
I always sang "row row row your boat gently down the stream, if you see a crocodile don't forget to scream!" Because that's the only one my teacher taught us so when my friends said the one you sang I was really confused
Yes, because life is mearly a hologram to keep us entertained for as long as we lived on whatever we truly are living on currently. People need to be taught this is school.
I also heard that " Ring around the Rosies" is actually about the Plauge. They carried flowers in their pockets or so they thought it would keep away the diesese. Ashes Ashes means the dead bodies were burned. At least from what I learned
Jessmin _ I didn't go through the comments so how do I know? I know you are just stating a sentence but it sounded kind of rude. No offense I don't want to be mean. I hate the mean people in the comments. I don't want to be them. Sorry but I don't really care.😒
Olive The Dingo Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's. You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey. When I grow rich, Say the bells of Shoreditch. When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney. I do not know, Says the great bell of Bow. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head! Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead
Oh Well then, is it bad that I only understand the last part with the candle ending at "dead?" XD The rest of it,and what it could mean, is unknown to me.
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring, he went to bed, bumped his head, and couldn't get up in the morning. That supposedly means, that he went to bed, maybe tried to get up to get a drink of water or something, and bumped his head. The bump may have been so bad, he couldn't get up in the morning, because he was dead.
No, Aphmau For Life, It's Raining Its Pouring The Old Man Is Snoring He went To Bed And Hit His Head And Couldn't Get Up In The Morning means that well yes. He did die. But what happened was he bumped his head so hard that he got a concussion and didn't wake up every hour on the hour and so he died. Bam. There goes the happy little nursery rhyme people sang when they were kids and it rained.
Rock-a-by baby, In the tree top, When the win blows, Your cradle will rock, When the bough breaks, The cradle will fall, And down will come baby, Cradle and all This song supposedly means, that a messed up or crazy, or drunk, etc. parent put their baby in a cradle on a tree top, the wind was blowing and the cradle was rocking. When the bough breaks, could mean the branches started to break, the cradle will fall means that, well the cradle will fall. And down will fall baby, cradle and all, means that the baby in the cradle fell out of the tree, and died. The baby died in a nursery rhyme or lullaby. It's one of the most disturbing I have ever heard.
Aphmau For Life we learned about this in school. It's actually back from the native Americans. They had their babies in cradles hanging from the tree tops with a piece of wood right where their forehead would rest. It's so if the cradle falls they don't hit their heads. Then when the Europeans came they saw that and made a song out of it.
Ring around the roses( a ring of death) pockets full of poses( flowers they put in there pocket to keep bad smells away) ashes ashes we all fall down( they burned the bodies)
Ring around the Rosie was the red ring in the skin. A pocket full of posies. The children and adults would pick posies to make medicine to try a cure the illness . And yes the burned the dead.
This is the ring around the roses version i heard: Ring around the roses a pocket full of poses A tissue a tissue we all fall down Ashes in the water ashes in the sky Ashes in our lungs just before we die Okay okay, calm down i was seven when me and my friends sang that. Didnt realize we were pretty fucked up
The last known incidence of the Black Death was before the Great Fire of London, 1666. Nursery rhymes can be shown quite convincingly to follow local versions of superstition that indicate differences in time from when they were first sung. :) [I learned, Ashes, ashes, all fall down]
Has a kid I sang “RING AROUND THE ROSIES POCKET FULL OF POSIES ASHES ASHES WE ALL FALL DOWN” oh now that I hear “ASHES AHSES WE ALL FALL DOWN” it sounds like some kind of fire that is killing everyone you love
Oranges and lemons rhyme is actually very scary . It is about the public execution in United Kingdom "All you that in the condemned hole do lie, prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die. Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near, that you before Almighty God will appear. Examine well yourselves, in time repent, that you not to eternal flames be sent, and when St Sepulchre’s bell tomorrow tolls, the Lord above have mercy on your souls.”
There have been three (or more) London Bridges ... The current one dates from 1973 .. and is not Tower Bridge ...the rest burnt down or were demolished ...
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It’s more about how people cremated the victims of the bubonic plague and they also cremated them with roses and poses or just poses....... I forgot most of it but that’s what I remember my history teacher telling me
Ring around the roses = means they have a red dots on their body A pocket full of poises = means each of dots contain poisons Ashes ashes = means cremation. We all fall down = means they already died
In Humpty Dumpty it never specifies that humpty was an egg. So I looked it up and supposedly "humpty dumpty" meant a large person in England a long time ago. So it goes "A large person sat on a wall, a large person had a great had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put the large person together again" ? That is kind of dark to be honest.
Lizzie Borden wasn't the actual one doing the chopping tho. She was involved in the murder, yes, but her uncle is the one who actually killed them, and both Lizzie and the maid were paid off to keep quiet about it. It's a true story too :)
Mary had a little lamb (little lamb, little lamb) Mary had a little lamb, who's heart was black as coal. It crept into her room one night (room one night, room one night) It crept into her room one night and ate her freaking soul. That's one I heard from my friend a few years ago XD
Noodles Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. Mary took her lamb to school one day, the kids let out loud jeers. The children took her lamb away and Mary choked on tears. Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was red with blood. She took its little body home and swore she'd hurt them good. Mary knew that lamb's blood called something ancient, hidden, and deep. As Mary painted signs of old, never did she weep. Mary had a little lamb, it made her something scary. Now I dare you, look in a mirror, and whisper Bloody Mary.
How he says it: Ringa Ringa Rosys A pocket full of posies A tissue a tissue We all fall down How I grew up saying it: Ring around the Rosys Pockets full of posies Ashes Ashes We all fall down Anyone else?
Humpty Dumpty represent the roman empire when roman empire fell no one can fix it again I remember my history class the roman empire try to fix the empire All king's men and horses try to fix him But no one can fix him
Oof only people with dirty minds will get this. Johnny shall have a new MASTER he shall earn not a penny a day because he can’t go any FASTER.........reeeeee also I’m liking my own comment (holy shit...this many likes I’m fucking dead)
I'm pretty sure that it goes "Ring around the Rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down". I've heard that it was about medieval times and the Black Plague. Pocket full of posies is because people would keep flowers in their pockets to lessen the smell of people that haven't bathed in months and decaying bodies from the plague. Ashes, ashes is because they would burn the corpses that died from the plague to stop further spread of the disease. And I'm pretty sure we all fall down is pretty self explanatory.
NO NO NO the ring around the Rosie means one of the Black Death that involves your blood and it looks like roses... Oh he said that This is what I get for committing early
"Ring around the rosie" is a disease where you get rose like rings on your body. "Pockets full of posey" what they put on you so you dont smell bad. "Ashes,ashes" You get cremated "We all fall down" you died.
"And you're sitting there watching this on your phone that your mother got you for Christmas" "Holy F*ck how'd he know?!" EDIT: Oh jeez I never thought my dumb baka comment would get so many likes and replies! Thanks guys! (Also yeah I know it's late but who cares?)
Jack and Jill went up the hill to smoke some marijuana Jack got high, dropped down his fly and asked Jill if she wanna, Jill said yes, pulled up her dress and had some fun Silly Jill forgot the pill and now they have a son. 😂😂😂😆
Jonny jonny yes papa Eating sugar no papa Open your eyes Papa found Jonny Jonny dead Because he had diabetes (Not meant to offend people with diabetes if it offends u I’ll delete you)
In South Africa we have a Nursery Rhyme that is called Simbamba. And goes as follows: "Simbamba, mama's baby, Simbamba mamas baby, twist his neck, throw him in the trench, step on his head and he is dead." It used to describe the way 'still births' were gotten rid of in the Anglo Boer War ( 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902)-the children were born from victims of rape in the Concentration Camps created by the British, and it was a quick and easy way to get rid of the unwanted child. My mother never sang it to us as children, but we heard it at pre-school a lot, and my mother threw a fit when we sang it. It was only when I entered high school that I realised the...the disgusting nature of it. (PS the war did happen, there is even a National Woman's Memorial, a memorial in honour of the fallen British troops, and a school created by the Presedent of the then Orange Free State ( Martinus Theunis Steyn) in honour of the women who lost their lives in the struggle against the British Empire).
With nursery rhymes people can teach kids about: Child sacrifices, The Black Death, breaking your skull, Religion related executions, and just plain execution, which is apparently OK to sing to your 2-4 year old child
We used to sing (with actions) "ring a ring o' roses, a pocket full of posies, atishoo atisho we all fall down" but I think ashes, ashes is more authentic because the word atishoo wasn't around until the 19th century.
Political gossip was forbidden. It was very dangerous. This was news over the back fence, or gossip about those in power disguised as nonsense for children. This is why as Americans we treasure our freedom of speech.
Jane Alexander Yep. Us British people said "yo, go to that place in the corner of the world," until Washington and Hamilton and all were like 'nuh bro, your tea smells weird' and the British were like, bitch, but they were allowed to live on their own for ages until an orange took charge and handed it to a Russian and now free speech is cool if you're not black, a woman, a liberal, or if you're someone with common sense. Y'all treasure your freedoms by giving it to an Orange. Bravo, Merica. ~You'll be back~
Emma Grant *me:* (silently slips out of huge ass door) *me:* You will be a hero in all arachnid kind. May the spiders you run into be scarce and smol, may your hair always be perfect, and may huge ass spiders keep a respectful distance from you because nobody actually likes to have spiders in their houses, the same way spiders don't like people in their houses.
We also learnt about the true meaning of Mary, Mary, quite contrary in History. But it was different. Yes it was about Mary the first (Bloody Mary) but we learnt that Mary was Catholic and she was ruling over a country that had gone protestant. She let the protestants continue their religion as long as they did it in secret or something. I don't know! Anyways, soon after, the protestants didn't want to be ruled over by a Catholic queen. So, they decided to find a new queen/king. Once Mary was executed, they made up a mean rhyme about her. The line Mary, Mary quite contrary means that Mary goes against everyone. Like she is stubborn. Contrary means doing the complete opposite of everyone else. And what they mean by silver bells is that they are mocking her. Mary loved silver bells and the music they made even though they were old fashioned those days. And cockle shell meant that she had too many affairs as she married 3 times. Finally, pretty maids all in a row is a really dark one. They are talking about her daughters. Mary was never able to have daughters but she wished she could have one. But every time she became pregnant the baby would die. So they made fun by saying her garden grows with pretty maids all in a row. Meaning her daughters graves. Children didn't make up this nursery rhyme. The protestants did.
fijian girlz You do know that Bloody Mary didn't say the protestants could practice their religion, right? She killed everyone who was openly Protestant, who she thought was Protestant, and anyone who stood up for the Protestant beliefs.
There are several interpretations of what people think the meaning of the poem was. Some say that the silver bells stood for Catholic Cathedral bells, the cockle shells stood for the pilgrimage to Spain and the pretty maids in a row stood for a row of nuns. (some believe this may be about Mary Queen of Scots) Others claim the meaning was about torturing her victims. Silver bells stood for thumbscrews that were torture devices, cockle shells that were a genital torture device and the pretty maids in a row stood for the people lining up to be executed by the Halifax Gibbet, which is the same as the guillotine. This was on a website (below) 'And pretty maids all in a row' may be about her stillborn children 'Mary Mary quite contrary' she went against her half-brother's wishes about who was to be queen 'how does your garden grow' mocking Mary for her difficulty to get pregnant 'with silver bells' funeral bells 'and cockle shells' king philip of spain had many affairs (husband)
I read somewhere that the rhyme comes from the days when it was common practice for women working in fields to tie the baby to a branch, keeping it out of the way, but within reach should it need feeding etc. Pretty gruesome really.
Rockabye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. And down will come baby, cradle and all.
One of my classmates made a dirty nursery rhyme and it goes like this: Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, God knows what they did up there, they came down with a daughter! When I first heard it I was like "*you're so dirty😂*" I guess I'm dirty too...
+lyle daphnie Aniban Yes I also wanna know how 'cause I got here becoz I read a mystery book and nursery rhymes there such as Twinkle Twinkle, Mary Had A Little Lamb are kinda creepy and like a code to the antagonists so I was really curious.
Alyssa Sumague Mary had a little lamb is referring to Marty had a ghost or spirit always haunting her. The little lamb is white and as a child many would think ghosts are too.
Like just that first verse? Because the original poem has like 4 or 5 verses and they're pretty star light explicit and never really mentions children or child like perspectives.
Oranges and lemons rhyme is actually very scary . It is about the public execution in United Kingdom "All you that in the condemned hole do lie, prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die. Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near, that you before Almighty God will appear. Examine well yourselves, in time repent, that you not to eternal flames be sent, and when St Sepulchre’s bell tomorrow tolls, the Lord above have mercy on your souls.”
Ba ba black sheep is about slavery Ba ba black sheep have you any wool means black slave have you any wool ( harvested any) Yes sir yes sir three bags full means he’s talking to his boss or master One for the master means that he harvested for his master or boss One for the dame meaning the masters wife One for the little boy who lives down the lane means their son who had long since moved out. Creeped out yet?
What about Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldn’t put Humpty back together again They never said he was an egg....but we all thought that as a kid....
Isn't humpty said like this Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall all the kings hourses and the kings men couldn't put Humpty together again, I swear that's how it goes
i'm pretty sure i heard it was based on a cannon with the same nickname that used to be mounted on the wall of a castle that fell off and wasn't able to be fixed. i don't really think all the king's horses and men would be trying to fix a kid as your probably suggesting , but they would try to use the horses to move a damaged cannon so the king's men could try to repair it, but fail.
+Richard Jones I believe Ex Nihilo is suggesting that Islam is enveloping London/Britain thanks to lily-livered politicians, companies that don't like having their windows smashed and of course the BBC; thus the Muslim conquerors will eventually rename all famous landmarks once the process is complete and we're all living under the black flag. Whether our Top Doge truly believes this or just fancied a bit of /pol/ trolling remains to be seen.
Earlier I was browsing through my ukulele book and found this poem: Pay me, You owe me, pay me my mon - ey down; Pay me or go to jail, Pay me my mon - ey down. Song is: Pay me my money down
It's actually spelt "Ring'o, Ring'o Roses", as it is an old English shortening for "Ring of". They also used this shortening for things like "o'clock" which actually means "Of the clock" meaning "3 o'clock" means "3 of the clock".
Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her mother 40 whacks when she saw what she had done she gave her father 41 theres also many rhymes about killing barney the dinosaur that differ depending where you grew up. i hate you you hate me lets gang up and kill barney with a baseball bat and a two-by-four no more purple dinosaur
I heard one. It turns out that "The Spider and the Fly" is actually about a man, raping and murdering a woman. "Come on in" said the spider to the fly is actually a reference to a man inviting a woman in like an all around nice guy. Read the rest of it to understnad where I'm coming from.
Lots of people don't treat a nursery rhyme like it's a reference. Just like how people realize that Disney movies are much more innocent than the ACTUAL story. Especially Snow White and Cinderella
@@NOAHSWIFE2007 Tell me this doesn't sound like seduction and murder! Will you you walk into my parlour, said a Spider to a Fly; 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy. The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to shew when you get there. Oh, no, no! said the little Fly; to ask me is in vain: For who goes up that winding stair shall ne'er come down again. Said the cunning Spider to the Fly, Dear friend, what can I do To prove the warm affection I have ever felt tor you? I have within my parlour great store of all that's nice: I'm sure you're very welcome; will you please to take a slice! Oh, no, no! said the little Fly; kind sir, that cannot be; For I know what's in your pantry, and I do not wish to see. Sweet creature, said the Spider, you're witty and you're wise; How handsome are your gaudy wings, how brilliant are your eyes! I have a little looking-glass upon my parlour-shelf; If you'll step in one moment, dear, you shall behold yourself. Oh, thank you, gentle sir, she said, for what you're pleased to say; And wishing you good morning now, I'll call another day. The Spider turn'd him round again, and went into his den, For well he knew that silly Fly would soon come back again. And then he wore a tiny web, in a little corner sly, And set his table ready for to dine upon the Fly; And went out to his door again, and merrily did sing, Come hither, pretty little Fly, with the gold and silver wing. Alas, alas! how very soon this silly little Fly, Hearing his wily flattering words, came slowly fluttering by. With humming wings she hung aloft, then nearer and nearer drew. Thinking only of her crested head and gold and purple hue: Thinking only of her brilliant wings, poor silly thing! at last, Up jump'd the cruel Spider, and firmly held her fast! He dragg'd her up his winding stair, into his dismal den, Within his little parlour; but she ne'er came down again. And now, my pretty maidens, who may this story hear, To silly, idle, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give ear; Unto an evil counsellor close heart, and ear, and eye, And learn a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly.
FriskyChan Come with me and you'll be the seventh maid in a row My answer was laughter, soft as I lowered my head. You're to late I'm afraid this flower's already dead.
I always had a theory that ring around the rosies a pocket full of posies ASHES ASHES (a fire) WE ALL FALL DOWN (they all died) [so I always just called "ring around the rosies" "the death song"]
Hahaha where did he get tissues? I always heard it as ashes ashes we all fall down because they would burn the bodies and the ashes would fall on the city
As far as I remember from my history: as they thought that the plague was transmitted through bad smells people would breath through flowers wrapped in tissues (handkerchiefs more likely) to ward it off... when I was younger we were taught "a tissue, a tissue. We all fall down." (maybe it's a british/american difference [I'm British])
you missed humpty dumpty because he technically wasn't a egg at first he actually was a kid but they change it because no one wants to see a kid die/crack their heads so yeah
I was told that the *ringa ringa* rhyme's backstory was: Kids who were dancing around together and the *poseys* we're poisonous mushrooms, then, the children ate them and they died..*fell down*
TwitterGirl Alcala The nursery rhyme ( Ring around the rosie ) is about the black plague. Here is what each line means. 💍🌷💍🌷💍🌷💍🌷💍 Ring around the Rosy One of the first visible signs of infection were red rings surrounding a rosy bump, all over the victim's body. Pocket full of Posy A common belief of the time was that the plague was borne on "foul air." The rationale was that people could protect themselves from the bad air by keeping their local air smelling sweet. That, and it also helped them deal with the smell of death... On the other hand, another sign of infection was the foul stench that would begin to emanate from the victim's body as their lymph system began filling with blood. Those still mobile endeavored to mask their stench and avoid detection by carrying flowers on their person. Ashes, Ashes, In the terminal phases of the disease, victims would be hemorrhaging internally, sometimes triggering sneezing as it irritated the breathing passages. "Ashes" is a child's approximation of a paroxysm of sneezing. In this weakened state, a victim could, and often did, sneeze their lungs out. We all Fall Down Death.
Unfortunately, thats all incorrect - look at this site: www.medicinenet.com/plague_facts/article.htm Plague does not have rosy rings, and does not cause sneezing. It has just about every other symptom, diarrhoea, vomiting, chills, shortness of breath, headache, swollen nymph nodes, and of course the black boils that give its its name... but two symptoms that don't occur are sneezing and red rings.. so not the meaning of the nursery rhyme, Iain is correct below... someone came up with that in the 1950s and it stuck.
*cough* They aren't too young for Shakespeare and such, besides, there's plenty of books in the world. Also, nobody said you couldn't read it to your children, just prepare for them to discover videos like this one and cry themselves to sleep.
Actually, the bit about Ring around the Rosy is not quite true from a historical standpoint. The earliest known version of the children's lyric actually dates back to over a century after the events of the Black Death. It is true that a commonly held belief in many circles is that song is a reference to the Bubonic Plague, but there is no historical evidence to actually support it.
Brett Herring it is commonly believed, and stated to be a reference to the Black Death, but that doesn't change the fact that the earliest known records of the song can only be dated to a few decades after the Black Death
I made a this one up because it might not be the right reason but this is it . The rhyme that says 5 little ducks went out one day over the hills and far away mother duck said “quack quack quack quack” but only 4 little ducks came back, I think it means that the ducks got kidnapped one buy one until there was none left then they escaped or 5 different ducklings came back and the mother duck thought they were her ducklings. I’m not sure if that’s correct but that’s just what I think
Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water,
Poor old Jill
Forgot her pill
And came down with a daughter.
xD
Jack and Jill
Went up the Hill
To have a bit of fun
Silly Jill
Forgot her pill
And now you got a son
Jack and Jill
Went Up the Hill
Jacks got a Gun
Two in the head
Now he's dead
And Jills got a son
Two in the head surely it only takes one lol
MrShannonite That's Funny
Am I the only one who heard a different version of Ring around the roses?
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Also silver bells and cockle shells likely refer to types of actual flowers that were popular adornments for graves. It likely had more to do with her death count and less to deal with torture.
Nate Buell same, that's the one I know
I've always heard it's referring to the plague. But different aspects to different words. Ashes referring to cremation or them using ashes as a way they thought would cure the sores. The posies being used to cover up the bad odors from the dead and dying. Everything else is pretty much the same. The wording, I think, is just different from the U.K. and United States.
Collin Campbell
"Ring around the rosie a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down." that's the one I heard- :I
and I used to think it was about a bunch of people who went to hell. but y'know, whatever...
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. I don't know what they did up there, but now they've got a daughter..
SimonB198207 lol
SimonB198207 That made no sense. Maybe a girl fell from the sky in the pail.
lol....
SimonB198207 Oh my....
*SimonB198207 BLAAAAAH*
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a bucket of water
Don’t know what they did up there
But they came down with a daughter
Meh sorry but that's not as great as the others.
Nvm you copied a comment that's 1 year later. Unoriginal
oh god.
nice
Jack and Jill
Went up the
Hill to fetch
The pile of water
Jack pulled down
His trousers and
Soon that had a
Daughter
Lavender Alexandra 1D Well sorry, my friend told me it, I didn’t see a comment. Also, get tf off of my comment if it wasn’t as good as the others like wtf
when you think about it, even kids movies are messed up. like 'finding nemo' heres the plot
A serial killer brutally murders a mother and almost all of her children while her husband watches, leaving only one child alive. The father raises his only remaining son, who as a result of the killer’s attack is born with a physical impairment. One day, the son is taken from his father and kept as a prisoner in a foreign land. The father must travel far from home to find him and can only rely on the aid of a mentally-handicapped woman for help
Vanessica Bloxgirl never though of it like that
Dang that's messed up a lot
Wow. Finding Nemo is evil and terrifying... WHAT THE HECK DID I WATCH AS A KID?!
welp now im depressed
Whelp good try but it is actually in the ocean and in finding dory it’s even worse she was taken from her parents
In elementary school my friends use to say "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a golden leaf jack fell down and split his pants and Jill said where's the beef" smh😆😃 Smh memories😆
We used to say
Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water
Stupid Jill forgot the Pill
And now she's got a daughter
Chauntele Kali , my school taught us that jack busted his head open and died then they warned us against running in the hall
Yep I learned that too! I learned a lot more alternate nursery rhymes as well....Hickory dickory dock three mice run up the clock, the clock struck one and the other two got away with minor injuries! Mary had a little lamb it's fleece was black as charcoal, every time it jumped the fence you'd see it's little arse hole! Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffit eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider and sat down beside her, and she said f#%k off hairy legs. Roll, roll, roll your joint, twist it at the end. Take a puff, that's enough, and pass it to a friend. Hey diddle diddle, the cat did a piddle, all over the bedside clock. The dog laughed, to see such fun,...
And died of electric shock.
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
Both with a buck and a quarter,
Jill came down with two fifty.....
Yeah, that fuckin whore!
--- Andrew Dice Clay
jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
who knows what they did up there but they came down with a daughter.
Seems like every nursery rhyme has a dark meaning.
Rockabye Baby is probably the most disturbing... My mum sang that to me often when she was trying to get me to sleep... And it always worked.
That's not dark
@@emmaolivia101 Its a joke....
I randomly started singing Rockabye by Clean Bandit...Please don’t judge me... I thought you meant that song..
What's the other one with Mockingbird that would creep me out 'hush little baby don't say a word mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird' which clearly mean 'shut up or you will die' cuz weren't mockingbirds deadly (I edited it cuz it auto corrected *gonna* to *going to*
@@alyssaskits4155 oh that one
Mary Mary quite contrary... I hear Andrew Dice Clay saying it every time now
Secret garden
*HUMPTY DUMPTY IS ACTUALLY A DEPRESSED POTATOE*
Humpty dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty dumpty had a great fall
Someone say's humpty dumpty is a cannon place on a wall when it had a great fall no one can't fix it's again.
But humpty dumpty represent the ROMAN EMPIRE when the roman empire fell no one can fix it's again.
Helo
No one likes you
No one thinks your smart
No one wants to be your freind
Guess what
My name is....
No one
Woah
Nice!
*YOU ARE CORECCTO*
I thought it was
“Ring around the Rosie
Pockets full of posies
Ashes, ashes
We all fall down”
Klaire_Kat 14 me too
That basically stands for rituals
Klaire_Kat 14 same
Klaire_Kat 14 it is he said it wrong or learned it differently
Klaire_Kat 14 it is ring around the Rosie
Don't forget about the old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children she didn't know what to do...so she beat the shit out of them so they would cry themselves to sleep. I think that's pretty disturbing.
What do you mean by meeee
Jessica Downey I don't remember the beating part... of that story.
Julia Garriott the part where it says she says "she gave them some broth without any bread and whipped them all soundly and put them to bed."
So... Queen Mary is Bloody Mary?
Yes. Queen Mary I was known as Bloody Mary (there's a book about her with that title). She had more people put to death (often by burning at the stake) during the miserable five years of her religiously fanatical reign to make England Catholic again than her half-sister Elizabeth I did during the entire next 45 years of her reign. Queen Elizabeth I had two women named Mary in her life: the religious fanatic Mary I who died of uterine or ovarian cancer in 1558, and then Mary, Queen of Scots (another Catholic whose additional reason to overthrow the English queen included reinstating Catholicism to England), her cousin who plotted and schemed to overthrow Elizabeth I. After some 19 years of plots by Mary and her followers, Elizabeth finally signed the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587. If you don't have thirty years to read biographies and histories about the five generations of Tudors that started with the affair of the Welshman Owen ap Meredith ap Tydier with the widow Catherine of Valois and ended with the death of Queen Elizabeth I, there are Wikipedia pages about all of them and the major players in their lives. Of them all, Queen Elizabeth I has the most complex and interesting personality.
If she was known for burning Protestants why isn't her nickname Ashy Mary?
@@jami8555 two words, thumbs screws 😨
@@soulshard4713
....
*well it all makes sense now*
Jack and Jill
Went to the Hill
To fetch a pail of water..
ADULTERY!
WTF?!
Jasper the Fox
basically sex
Jasper the Fox yeh
It's raining
It's pouring
The old man is snoring.
He bumped his head
When he went to bed
And he couldn't get up in the morning
Basically saying it was raining he slipped fell and hit his head got a concision went to bed and died in his sleep
It's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring he went to bed with a knife in his head and didn't get up in the morning. He was very lazy
Skye Brown that was my favourite song in kindergarten...
Or its saying he couldn't get up cuase his head was hurting so it was hard for him to sleep
Skye Brown creepy
sounds fun
in iceland, we have a nursery rhyme called "sofðu unga ástin mín" or "sleep my young love". it's about a woman who, rather than to let the baby be killed by the harsh winter, drowns it in a nearby lake. "sofðu unga ástin mín" is sung softly as to calm the child while it's drowning.
Well that explains why there's only like 300 000 of you lot, you keep drowning the fekkin kids!
Huh, that stupid humanity. If we ever start hurting like hell or get in a comma, those cry-babies would put us to sleep cus its the most flipping "human" thing to do... Sh*t.
ELbabotas Shinigami it's an old folktale. the song is about how the woman has absolutely no other choice than to drown the baby and just how sad mortified she is about the whole thing. drowning, in icelandic culture, is considered a very good death. the cold however, is not.
þetta er ekki rör þetta er fallbyssa WTF my childhood is now...
Broken :(
þetta er ekki rör þetta er fallbyssa oh I read a fanfic where the Icelandic character from Hetalia sang that to the Harry Potter characters. They all flipped when they figured out what it meant.
I got the plague
I got flowers to try to save me
I’m burning to dead I’m burning to death
We all fall *Dead*
Maybe there is going the be a covid version now.
@@melissadevries7504 Covid was nowhere near as bad as the plague, but there’s a chance.
My teacher told me about the ring a ring a roses one and I was like 11 at the time and I used to sing it all the time when I was little but not I don't like it means:
Ring a ring a roses, There's are things in your skin that look likes roses
A pocket full of poesies, You made the flowers to keep u safe
Atitue atitue, When you sneeze you could die
We all fall down, You all die
Ashes in the water, they burnt them and put ashes in the water
Ashes in the sea, same with water
We all jump up in a 1 2 3, you rise to heaven
Plz like this took forever
This seems kind of hard to believe
Sophie Evitts when I was actually 11 I sing kpop lmao
Cool!
an - hyungs lol I am 11 and listen to alottttt of kpop
Sophie Evitts bitch
I thought it was "ring around the rosey, pocket full of posies, ashes ashes, we all fall down" (ignore if I spelt something wrong....)
i think thats the american one
That's another verse, about how the great fire of London ended the plague in London
M BKSJDH oh... ok! sorry... I'm American and I didn't know
M BKSJDH ok
llama Cat yeah I learned it that way too.
For us it was:Ring around the rosie pockets fill of posies,Ashes Ashes we all fall down
Zahira Little Same
Yup
Yep same
Same here
Hey but that sounds worse
I thought London Bridge is falling down was about the great fire of London
Parent Helix that's what I was taught
we all did
Me too!
It was the ring around the rosies one aka the American version it was about the great fire of London since it says "ashes, ashes and we all fall down." And the original rosies one is about the plague. And so the rosies one that says "ashes, ashes we all fall down." Is about the plague ending with the great fire. Your welcome :D
Same
Does anyone else say "ashes ashes we all fall down" in Ring Around The Rosie?
yes. ashes to ashes...we all (rich and poor) fall down (die)
Yes
Yes.......
Lil Hawkeye Gaming i do
Lil Hawkeye Gaming + meeee
row row row your boat gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily LIFE IS BUT A DREAM
That scared me lol
I always sang "row row row your boat gently down the stream, if you see a crocodile don't forget to scream!" Because that's the only one my teacher taught us so when my friends said the one you sang I was really confused
Old belief that a ferry man takes you in a boat to the land of the dead.
Yes, because life is mearly a hologram to keep us entertained for as long as we lived on whatever we truly are living on currently.
People need to be taught this is school.
LovelyDevil666 Animates thanks for the nightmares m8
I also heard that " Ring around the Rosies" is actually about the Plauge. They carried flowers in their pockets or so they thought it would keep away the diesese. Ashes Ashes means the dead bodies were burned. At least from what I learned
Sorry I commented this thinking you wouldn't cover it. Sorry and just to say this video was really interesting
Emily Rodriguez no onder in kindergarten they banned that
Jessmin _ I didn't go through the comments so how do I know? I know you are just stating a sentence but it sounded kind of rude. No offense I don't want to be mean. I hate the mean people in the comments. I don't want to be them. Sorry but I don't really care.😒
They stuffed the pockets of the dead with fresh flowers to reduce the awful smell
Emily Rodriguez yeah I knew about that one
In first grade I broke my arm by playing ring around the rosies
WELL NOW YOU DIED XD
Musicalgacha Girl26 MOOD
cool
Ouch XD
xD irony
oranges and lemons? Never heard of that one
Olive The Dingo Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clement's.
You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin's.
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch.
When will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney.
I do not know,
Says the great bell of Bow.
Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!
Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead
Oh
Well then, is it bad that I only understand the last part with the candle ending at "dead?" XD
The rest of it,and what it could mean, is unknown to me.
Olive The Dingo me either.
same
Olive The Dingo nither
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring, he went to bed, bumped his head, and couldn't get up in the morning. That supposedly means, that he went to bed, maybe tried to get up to get a drink of water or something, and bumped his head. The bump may have been so bad, he couldn't get up in the morning, because he was dead.
bruh no
No, Aphmau For Life, It's Raining Its Pouring The Old Man Is Snoring He went To Bed And Hit His Head And Couldn't Get Up In The Morning means that well yes. He did die. But what happened was he bumped his head so hard that he got a concussion and didn't wake up every hour on the hour and so he died. Bam. There goes the happy little nursery rhyme people sang when they were kids and it rained.
Fiona Granger thanks! I thought he just bumped it really hard and it just got worse while he was sleeping
Aphmau For Life gg
Aphmau For Life he tripped on his blanket, and hit his head on the headboard.
Rock-a-by baby,
In the tree top,
When the win blows,
Your cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks,
The cradle will fall,
And down will come baby,
Cradle and all
This song supposedly means, that a messed up or crazy, or drunk, etc. parent put their baby in a cradle on a tree top, the wind was blowing and the cradle was rocking. When the bough breaks, could mean the branches started to break, the cradle will fall means that, well the cradle will fall. And down will fall baby, cradle and all, means that the baby in the cradle fell out of the tree, and died. The baby died in a nursery rhyme or lullaby. It's one of the most disturbing I have ever heard.
I know it always scared me
that's why they changed it. It used to scare my grandma when she was little
Aphmau For Life I
I agree! My grandmas still alive but I don't get to see her much...
Aphmau For Life we learned about this in school. It's actually back from the native Americans. They had their babies in cradles hanging from the tree tops with a piece of wood right where their forehead would rest. It's so if the cradle falls they don't hit their heads. Then when the Europeans came they saw that and made a song out of it.
JACK AND JILL
WENT UP THE HILL
TO FETCH A PAIL OF WATER
JACK FELL DOWN
AND BROKE HIS CROWN
THEN JILLL CAME TREMBLING AFTER!
I saw that rhyme, It terrified me
Tumbling after
I think it's tumbling
Ring around the rosies🌹
Pockets full of posies🌼
Ashes ashes⚱
We all fall down🔫
Okay...
Abby Marie you subscribe to what culture or get bitten by a vulture
Mischa Bernice Capacillo both
Abby Marie jk
Abby Marie Scary ikr
Ring around the roses( a ring of death) pockets full of poses( flowers they put in there pocket to keep bad smells away) ashes ashes we all fall down( they burned the bodies)
I heard this one too
Ring around the Rosie was the red ring in the skin. A pocket full of posies. The children and adults would pick posies to make medicine to try a cure the illness . And yes the burned the dead.
Midnight Umbreon girl my history teacher taught us that in 6th grade
teresa ames - Do you believe in the tooth fairy as well?
Yes
This is the ring around the roses version i heard:
Ring around the roses a pocket full of poses
A tissue a tissue we all fall down
Ashes in the water ashes in the sky
Ashes in our lungs just before we die
Okay okay, calm down i was seven when me and my friends sang that. Didnt realize we were pretty fucked up
Bruh
We sung:
Ring a ring of roses a pocket full if poses a tissue a tissue we all fall down ashes in the water ashes in the we cant jump up or count 1-2-3
The last known incidence of the Black Death was before the Great Fire of London, 1666. Nursery rhymes can be shown quite convincingly to follow local versions of superstition that indicate differences in time from when they were first sung. :)
[I learned, Ashes, ashes, all fall down]
.
+rihanna brooks calm down
my version of ring around the roses is
ring around the rosie, pockets full of posies, ashes, ashes we all fall down.
Is that not the original??
hewo
@@_cupid_ no it's not, that's the remake of the original
@@kylercoleman7892 oh
Same
Humpty Dumpty is about a big ass cannon that fell off the wall of a castle, couldn't put it back
That was what I heard. The thing was very large, and precariously balanced on the rampart.
pavv the original rhyme was actually pictured as a man the cannon story was added later
It was a Church - St. Mary's Church in Colchester, England. It fell off because a man with one eye fired it
RING A ROUND A ROSIE****** (where did ringa ringa roses come from?)
I drink your MALKSHAKE! I drink it UP! Exactly that’s what I’m saying
Ikr
Yeah I was confused when he said that
Different countries say it different. I'm from the USA and it's ring around the rosie
Alexis Wilson same here but except from Singapore
Has a kid I sang “RING AROUND THE ROSIES POCKET FULL OF POSIES ASHES ASHES WE ALL FALL DOWN” oh now that I hear “ASHES AHSES WE ALL FALL DOWN” it sounds like some kind of fire that is killing everyone you love
Lil’ bloody Gal also I think you would be learning the plauge (the black death) in high school or middle School
That’s one reason they used the Oranges and Lemons in IT 2017...sheesh
Oranges and lemons rhyme is actually very scary . It is about the public execution in United Kingdom
"All you that in the condemned hole do lie, prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die. Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near, that you before Almighty God will appear. Examine well yourselves, in time repent, that you not to eternal flames be sent, and when St Sepulchre’s bell tomorrow tolls, the Lord above have mercy on your souls.”
To be fair, London Bridge *hasn't* fallen down yet, so maybe putting kids in the foundations was just sound construction practice??
pious83 I beg of you not to become a builder.
There have been three (or more) London Bridges ... The current one dates from 1973 .. and is not Tower Bridge ...the rest burnt down or were demolished ...
+David Hedges Yet it still hasn't *fallen* down...
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I was gonna chime in with that. I was pretty sure one of them was over in Arizona.
Ring around the roses,
Pockets full of poses,
Ashes ashes we all fall down.
That's how I heard it
2017 ring around the Roses a pocketful of posies atishoo atishoo we all fall down so they sneeze they fall into a fire like
Canadia Valentine me too
I always heard the beginning as "Ring around the rosy"
That's how I heard it, too.
It’s more about how people cremated the victims of the bubonic plague and they also cremated them with roses and poses or just poses....... I forgot most of it but that’s what I remember my history teacher telling me
Old mother hubbard went to the cubbard to fetch her old dog a bone but when she bent over rover took over and gave her a bone of his own
kitty :3 I am literally lmao. That's awesome.
kitty :3 That old mother got f*cked by rover
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I saw a version where the dog dies and comes back to life
*me wean im 6*my dog humps my leg*me:aww your giveing me a hug =3
Me now*dog humps my leg*me:uhhhhh....
God! And how we in India sang "Ringaa ringaa rozeess pocket fullaa frozes husahhha hushhaa all fall down''..... Feeling embarrassed now ....lol😂🤣🤣😆..
Rubina Purkaith ring'o ring'o Roses.
In the U.S. It's "Ring around the roses, a pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down"
That's basically the same way me and my friends uses to sing it in Jamaica
I said it like "ring around a Rosie a pocket full of posies husha husha we all fall down" anyone else??
Ring around the roses = means they have a red dots on their body
A pocket full of poises = means each of dots contain poisons
Ashes ashes = means cremation.
We all fall down = means they already died
For the ringa ringa roses that's not how we sing it where I live we do it ring around the roseys pockets full of poiseys ashes ashes we all fall down
NINJA PANDA yea same
It's different in The UK
SAME
In Humpty Dumpty it never specifies that humpty was an egg. So I looked it up and supposedly "humpty dumpty" meant a large person in England a long time ago. So it goes "A large person sat on a wall, a large person had a great had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put the large person together again" ? That is kind of dark to be honest.
Emily Rodriguez I thought humpty dumpty was Charles II
It’s a cannon guys you can literally look it up.
Yall it's a cannon
Emily Rodriguez creepy
I mean ... a large person 😂😂 it’s messed up but at the same time it’s funny
Jack and Jill went bungie jumping off a hill,
for the wanted some time alone,
Jack fell down and broke his back,
and Jill laughed all the way home...
Bianca Antonucci qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
Bianca Antonucci lololollololol
Same
HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKK
What version is that??
Have you heard of Lizzie Borden
“ Lizzie Borden took an axe
Gave her mother forty wacks
When she’d seen what she had done
Gave her father forty-one”
Lizzie Borden wasn't the actual one doing the chopping tho. She was involved in the murder, yes, but her uncle is the one who actually killed them, and both Lizzie and the maid were paid off to keep quiet about it. It's a true story too :)
Mary Had a Little Lamb.
Mary is being haunted by a ghost, the Lamb is white like a ghost and it followed her which means she could not escape it
Ooooo fancy 😂
Mary had a little lamb (little lamb, little lamb)
Mary had a little lamb, who's heart was black as coal.
It crept into her room one night (room one night, room one night)
It crept into her room one night and ate her freaking soul.
That's one I heard from my friend a few years ago XD
Noodles
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go.
Mary took her lamb to school one day,
the kids let out loud jeers.
The children took her lamb away
and Mary choked on tears.
Mary had a little lamb,
it's fleece was red with blood.
She took its little body home
and swore she'd hurt them good.
Mary knew that lamb's blood called
something ancient, hidden, and deep.
As Mary painted signs of old,
never did she weep.
Mary had a little lamb,
it made her something scary.
Now I dare you, look in a mirror,
and whisper Bloody Mary.
OH MY GOD....
Brilliant.
How he says it:
Ringa Ringa Rosys
A pocket full of posies
A tissue a tissue
We all fall down
How I grew up saying it:
Ring around the Rosys
Pockets full of posies
Ashes
Ashes
We all fall down
Anyone else?
everyone says americans say ring around the rosies but i live in brighton U.K. and i say ring around the rosies
CallMeMaddy
Yeah! I sing it like that as well when I was younger..
CallMeMaddy same
I say it his way
CallMeMaddy yep me but I have learnt and sung it both ways, and both ways make sense.
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." It never says that Humpty Dumpty was an egg.
It don't need to because we all know that one book and video that tell us it's an egg
@Matt THX AKA k
Humpty Dumpty represent the roman empire when roman empire fell no one can fix it again
I remember my history class the roman empire try to fix the empire
All king's men and horses try to fix him
But no one can fix him
Puppy_slimes humpty dumpty was a cannon.
Oof only people with dirty minds will get this. Johnny shall have a new MASTER he shall earn not a penny a day because he can’t go any FASTER.........reeeeee also I’m liking my own comment (holy shit...this many likes I’m fucking dead)
Luna The gacha_girl haha I got it master is ur fucker and faster is speeding up lol
@@ruthwheeler1563 I didn't know so thkz I guess
oh god i was really scared when i first heard that one on here i thought it was going to be about child prostitues or something christ
OMG 😂
😏
I'm pretty sure that it goes "Ring around the Rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down". I've heard that it was about medieval times and the Black Plague. Pocket full of posies is because people would keep flowers in their pockets to lessen the smell of people that haven't bathed in months and decaying bodies from the plague. Ashes, ashes is because they would burn the corpses that died from the plague to stop further spread of the disease. And I'm pretty sure we all fall down is pretty self explanatory.
FlamingKate it's different here
they say it differently in Britain than we do here. Over there it's ring-a ring-a rosie.
NO NO NO the ring around the Rosie means one of the Black Death that involves your blood and it looks like roses...
Oh he said that
This is what I get for committing early
"Ring around the rosie" is a disease where you get rose like rings on your body. "Pockets full of posey" what they put on you so you dont smell bad. "Ashes,ashes" You get cremated "We all fall down" you died.
Cat Imagine lmao that’s why I️ don’t comment early ether XD
+CC and PP Gaming did you know that song is the devils lullaby
these idiots don't care about how accurate there material is he who follows what is popular is a fool because he thinks he is wise
"And you're sitting there watching this on your phone that your mother got you for Christmas"
"Holy F*ck how'd he know?!"
EDIT: Oh jeez I never thought my dumb baka comment would get so many likes and replies! Thanks guys! (Also yeah I know it's late but who cares?)
Emma Clairemont lol i buy my own shit. No fancy xmas gifts for me.
Emma Clairemont I got mine for my birthday lmao
Hahaha hey im a grown woman, im watching this on my phone that i bought my damn self lol
Emma Clairemont no im watching on my iPad that my mom and Dad randomly got me...
Emma Clairemont i don’t even know any more honestly, he might be a stalker lol jk
Jack and Jill went up the hill to smoke some marijuana
Jack got high, dropped down his fly and asked Jill if she wanna,
Jill said yes, pulled up her dress and had some fun
Silly Jill forgot the pill and now they have a son.
😂😂😂😆
wow thats complex
@@rlxwdyy 👏👏next meme
Lol
Daughter
Summer Serit than a kite
Ever notice that the never mentioned that Humpty Dumpty was an egg?
yeh hes an egg
Samantha Skittlez he's not. He's actually a canon
Jhaedi Stark
Makes sense
Essence Ghostkeeper yes
Essence Ghostkeeper if I want to sub to me,u don't have to tho
London Bridge is falling down ( puts picture of tower bridge) only a British person like me would know this
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Weeaboo Girl welcome to the British club
xD
yep
It's called comedy I know. I'm from Cheshire England so yeah
My history teacher said that her maids were her dead babies lined up in a graveyard/ buried in her garden??
EpicRexx your history teacher is a sociopath, never go back to that class
Robert Snider Actually there are theories out there that is and one of them is.
EpicRexx my teacher said that too
Mary never had any miscarriages or stillborn children. She only had two phantom pregnancies.
kissofshadows21 What the heck is a phantom pregnancy?
EXCUSE ME BUT WHERE IS JONNY JONNY??
Lol
lol
*eating sugar*
Jonny jonny yes papa
Eating sugar no papa
Open your eyes
Papa found Jonny Jonny dead
Because he had diabetes
(Not meant to offend people with diabetes if it offends u I’ll delete you)
In South Africa we have a Nursery Rhyme that is called Simbamba. And goes as follows:
"Simbamba, mama's baby, Simbamba mamas baby, twist his neck, throw him in the trench, step on his head and he is dead." It used to describe the way 'still births' were gotten rid of in the Anglo Boer War ( 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902)-the children were born from victims of rape in the Concentration Camps created by the British, and it was a quick and easy way to get rid of the unwanted child. My mother never sang it to us as children, but we heard it at pre-school a lot, and my mother threw a fit when we sang it. It was only when I entered high school that I realised the...the disgusting nature of it. (PS the war did happen, there is even a National Woman's Memorial, a memorial in honour of the fallen British troops, and a school created by the Presedent of the then Orange Free State ( Martinus Theunis Steyn) in honour of the women who lost their lives in the struggle against the British Empire).
Kariena Stander I… don't know how to respond to that
Yeah, that's just... horrible
Kariena Stander did the red coats do that???😱😱
Kariena Stander that is the most messed up nursery rhyme ever
Kariena Stander wow im sry for the women like if you agree
With nursery rhymes people can teach kids about: Child sacrifices, The Black Death, breaking your skull, Religion related executions, and just plain execution, which is apparently OK to sing to your 2-4 year old child
Team Magma Ace Grunt and then they wonder why we turn out like this
Hell yeah it is, I sing to my kid about the bodies in the back yard....(jk)
I've always sung Mary Mary as
Mistress Mary quite contrary, How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockleshells
and marigolds all in a row.
i ;earned this version in school
Ring Around the Rosies a Pocketful of posies ashes ashes We All Fall Down
I thought it said ring around a Rosie a pocket full of posies achoo achoo we all fall down lol
We used to sing (with actions) "ring a ring o' roses, a pocket full of posies, atishoo atisho we all fall down" but I think ashes, ashes is more authentic because the word atishoo wasn't around until the 19th century.
Curious to know how these became children's nursery rhymes.
Political gossip was forbidden. It was very dangerous. This was news over the back fence, or gossip about those in power disguised as nonsense for children. This is why as Americans we treasure our freedom of speech.
Jane Alexander
Yep. Us British people said "yo, go to that place in the corner of the world," until Washington and Hamilton and all were like 'nuh bro, your tea smells weird' and the British were like, bitch, but they were allowed to live on their own for ages until an orange took charge and handed it to a Russian and now free speech is cool if you're not black, a woman, a liberal, or if you're someone with common sense. Y'all treasure your freedoms by giving it to an Orange. Bravo, Merica.
~You'll be back~
+Emma Grant
*me:* (Whispers) Burr was actually trying to shoot me cause he hates spiders shh but I was behind Hamilton
Emma Grant
*me:* (silently slips out of huge ass door)
*me:* You will be a hero in all arachnid kind. May the spiders you run into be scarce and smol, may your hair always be perfect, and may huge ass spiders keep a respectful distance from you because nobody actually likes to have spiders in their houses, the same way spiders don't like people in their houses.
Me: You're so welcome after all I don't want Burr to just be like up in here and shoot a spider that is so nice!
We also learnt about the true meaning of Mary, Mary, quite contrary in History. But it was different. Yes it was about Mary the first (Bloody Mary) but we learnt that Mary was Catholic and she was ruling over a country that had gone protestant. She let the protestants continue their religion as long as they did it in secret or something. I don't know! Anyways, soon after, the protestants didn't want to be ruled over by a Catholic queen. So, they decided to find a new queen/king. Once Mary was executed, they made up a mean rhyme about her. The line Mary, Mary quite contrary means that Mary goes against everyone. Like she is stubborn. Contrary means doing the complete opposite of everyone else. And what they mean by silver bells is that they are mocking her. Mary loved silver bells and the music they made even though they were old fashioned those days. And cockle shell meant that she had too many affairs as she married 3 times. Finally, pretty maids all in a row is a really dark one. They are talking about her daughters. Mary was never able to have daughters but she wished she could have one. But every time she became pregnant the baby would die. So they made fun by saying her garden grows with pretty maids all in a row. Meaning her daughters graves. Children didn't make up this nursery rhyme. The protestants did.
fijian girlz You do know that Bloody Mary didn't say the protestants could practice their religion, right? She killed everyone who was openly Protestant, who she thought was Protestant, and anyone who stood up for the Protestant beliefs.
I loved that nursery ryhme! 😭
Dragon Lavette oops sorry!😳
Oh the best of times finding out the true thing of Mary the best tromatized me for life but I stopped caring
There are several interpretations of what people think the meaning of the poem was. Some say that the silver bells stood for Catholic Cathedral bells, the cockle shells stood for the pilgrimage to Spain and the pretty maids in a row stood for a row of nuns. (some believe this may be about Mary Queen of Scots)
Others claim the meaning was about torturing her victims. Silver bells stood for thumbscrews that were torture devices, cockle shells that were a genital torture device and the pretty maids in a row stood for the people lining up to be executed by the Halifax Gibbet, which is the same as the guillotine.
This was on a website (below)
'And pretty maids all in a row' may be about her stillborn children
'Mary Mary quite contrary' she went against her half-brother's wishes about who was to be queen
'how does your garden grow' mocking Mary for her difficulty to get pregnant
'with silver bells' funeral bells
'and cockle shells' king philip of spain had many affairs (husband)
rock-a-by-baby
I mean...
DOWN WILL COME BABY CRADLE AND ALL!!!
Thats not going to give a kid nightmares at all.
Baby's fall asleep to that???
I read somewhere that the rhyme comes from the days when it was common practice for women working in fields to tie the baby to a branch, keeping it out of the way, but within reach should it need feeding etc. Pretty gruesome really.
unicorns love my mother thought it was too dark so she changed it baby will fall and mama will catch you cradle and all
unicorns love ikr it's scary
unicorns love I sing this to my niece to get her asleep when I look after her , my aunt and mother used to do the same for me 😂
Rockabye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. And down will come baby, cradle and all.
One of my classmates made a dirty nursery rhyme and it goes like this:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, God knows what they did up there, they came down with a daughter!
When I first heard it I was like "*you're so dirty😂*" I guess I'm dirty too...
apparenly Twinkle Twinkle little star is about child abuse.
Animal Anime Lover how?
+lyle daphnie Aniban Yes I also wanna know how 'cause I got here becoz I read a mystery book and nursery rhymes there such as Twinkle Twinkle, Mary Had A Little Lamb are kinda creepy and like a code to the antagonists so I was really curious.
Alyssa Sumague Mary had a little lamb is referring to Marty had a ghost or spirit always haunting her. The little lamb is white and as a child many would think ghosts are too.
its about kids wishing to be a star in the sky away from harms way.
Like just that first verse? Because the original poem has like 4 or 5 verses and they're pretty star light explicit and never really mentions children or child like perspectives.
When he mentioned London Bridge, did anyone think of Black Butler? Just me?
Sebastian Michaelis I did.
Sebastian Michaelis yes
same as me it reminded of black butler
i did. :)
Sebastian Michaelis no
Where I live it's "Ring around the Rosies, a pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes! We all fall down. "
Everyone says that's the American version but I live in Brighton U.K. and that's how I grew up saying it.
Elizabeth Danger this is how I grew saying it:
I don't know the words
I don't know the words
I don't know the words
I don't know the words
i live in Australia and i would sing it as:
ring around the roses
A pocket full of posies
ashes ashes
we all die (:
I say
Ringa round the roses
Pocka full of Posies
Ashes, Ashes.
We all die down.
Same
#3: also,
Ring a round the rosies,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down.
It’s all about the plague.
Ring around the rosey is a the darkest nursery rhyme i'v herd of.
Ikr
Oranges and lemons rhyme is actually very scary . It is about the public execution in United Kingdom
"All you that in the condemned hole do lie, prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die. Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near, that you before Almighty God will appear. Examine well yourselves, in time repent, that you not to eternal flames be sent, and when St Sepulchre’s bell tomorrow tolls, the Lord above have mercy on your souls.”
Ya its VERY dark. How is that appropriate for kids?
Ba ba black sheep is about slavery
Ba ba black sheep have you any wool means black slave have you any wool ( harvested any)
Yes sir yes sir three bags full means he’s talking to his boss or master
One for the master means that he harvested for his master or boss
One for the dame meaning the masters wife
One for the little boy who lives down the lane means their son who had long since moved out.
Creeped out yet?
I knew that one was from fucked origins
Tiger Stripes omg I'm litterally speechless idk what to say bc I'm so shocked
Thxs for the reminder
Meh.
I learned that rhyme in school. I’m 28. WTF!
What about Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Couldn’t put Humpty back together again
They never said he was an egg....but we all thought that as a kid....
It's "all the King's horses and all the King's men" not whatever you just said lol
Isn't humpty said like this Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall all the kings hourses and the kings men couldn't put Humpty together again, I swear that's how it goes
GlasBoThatBeastThough lol I’m not sure 😂😂
i'm pretty sure i heard it was based on a cannon with the same nickname that used to be mounted on the wall of a castle that fell off and wasn't able to be fixed. i don't really think all the king's horses and men would be trying to fix a kid as your probably suggesting , but they would try to use the horses to move a damaged cannon so the king's men could try to repair it, but fail.
GlasBoThatBeastThough yes
_hello darkness my old friend_
Oh my God lol
WhatCulture you should be ashamed! "London Bridge Is Falling Down" and then you show a blurry (but not blurry enough matey) picture of Tower Bridge?
Huh?
this
+Richard Jones
I believe Ex Nihilo is suggesting that Islam is enveloping London/Britain thanks to lily-livered politicians, companies that don't like having their windows smashed and of course the BBC; thus the Muslim conquerors will eventually rename all famous landmarks once the process is complete and we're all living under the black flag.
Whether our Top Doge truly believes this or just fancied a bit of /pol/ trolling remains to be seen.
Thank you for clearing that up. I thought it sounded like crazy-ass bullshit but wasn't sure. Now I am. Ta!
5% of the UK is Muslim, so not really doing a very good job of conquering so far.
*Ringa a ringa roooosie pocket full of poesies a tissue a tissue we all fall- to our death with the plague*
Sinead Redmond. That's wat my friend said! It's so true! I go with this one
That's weird the way we sing is like
Ring a round a posie pocket full of posies, it's been so long I can't even remember
Yep
Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
she gave her father forty-one.
Luna Đorđević love Lizzie Borden
Luna Đorđević Sadly, It was a true story.
Close your door, lock it, latch it!Lizzie has a brand new hatchet!
* heard 0f that 1 * persona11y th*nk *t's de1*ghtful
Ooh I love that one, I sing it :)
4:19 to 4:26 Dead😂😂😂
Earlier I was browsing through my ukulele book and found this poem:
Pay me, You owe me, pay me my mon - ey down; Pay me or go to jail, Pay me my mon - ey down.
Song is:
Pay me my money down
Teach meh da ways of da ukulele I want to learn how to play xD
5:48 I couldn't stop laughing WHY DID U HAVE TO EDIT IT LIKE THAT
teapng XDD
teapng Lol
It's actually spelt "Ring'o, Ring'o Roses", as it is an old English shortening for "Ring of". They also used this shortening for things like "o'clock" which actually means "Of the clock" meaning "3 o'clock" means "3 of the clock".
And Americans say where posh ha get that out ur head
Who told you that cuz WOW THAT GRAMMER😂😂
Humpty dumpy is a scary one for me I don't know why I just get creeped out by it
Who knew the "ringa ringa roses" song was about the plague?
(I learnt at school)
Pugicorn Gamer same I learnt at school when we were learning about the black death
Abbey Coysh I learnt it in pre-school
Pugicorn Gamer me, I also learnt it at school
Same
I learnt about by my sister xD
when he said and u lot are watching this on a phone your mum bought u for Christmas, I'm like true
Angus Heays same kast year accuwaly
Last*
Angus Heays I'm watching it on my mom's phone :D
Lol life am i right heheheee... fml
Angus Heays
I got my phone for my birthday 2 years ago
As a British person our nursery rhymes are fucked up
nursery rhymes in general are fucked.
in america we have rhymes about axe murder,yhe influenza out break,a little girl drowning,ect.
Lizzie Borden took an axe
Gave her mother 40 whacks
when she saw what she had done
she gave her father 41
theres also many rhymes about killing barney the dinosaur that differ depending where you grew up.
i hate you
you hate me
lets gang up and kill barney
with a baseball bat and a two-by-four
no more purple dinosaur
MAKaplan55 I heard a few kids at my school on the playground singing something like the 2nd one....😑😑😑
Different variation? i heard theres one 'with a baseball bat and a bullet in his head' kids are homicidal freaks
the one that we use is
i love you you love me lets get together and kill barney
i dont know the rest
2:10 The EU is not Europe Peter.
If Jesus is the lamb of God, and the son of Mary, did Mary have a little lamb?
yes, this made me rethink my entire life.... especially the last one
Elextric Unicorn omg lol
Elextric Unicorn idk
Back then lamb meant son
Elextric Unicorn that makes sense
I heard one. It turns out that "The Spider and the Fly" is actually about a man, raping and murdering a woman. "Come on in" said the spider to the fly is actually a reference to a man inviting a woman in like an all around nice guy. Read the rest of it to understnad where I'm coming from.
Black Star omg how the heck did I not notice that and I’ve heard it multiple times
Lots of people don't treat a nursery rhyme like it's a reference. Just like how people realize that Disney movies are much more innocent than the ACTUAL story. Especially Snow White and Cinderella
Sounds like fun but I ain't reading the rest got some fun times to live
Black Star can you write it down for me?im too lazy to look it up lol
@@NOAHSWIFE2007 Tell me this doesn't sound like seduction and murder!
Will you you walk into my parlour, said a Spider to a Fly;
'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I have many pretty things to shew when you get there.
Oh, no, no! said the little Fly; to ask me is in vain:
For who goes up that winding stair shall ne'er come down again.
Said the cunning Spider to the Fly, Dear friend, what can I do
To prove the warm affection I have ever felt tor you?
I have within my parlour great store of all that's nice:
I'm sure you're very welcome; will you please to take a slice!
Oh, no, no! said the little Fly; kind sir, that cannot be;
For I know what's in your pantry, and I do not wish to see.
Sweet creature, said the Spider, you're witty and you're wise;
How handsome are your gaudy wings, how brilliant are your eyes!
I have a little looking-glass upon my parlour-shelf;
If you'll step in one moment, dear, you shall behold yourself.
Oh, thank you, gentle sir, she said, for what you're pleased to say;
And wishing you good morning now, I'll call another day.
The Spider turn'd him round again, and went into his den,
For well he knew that silly Fly would soon come back again.
And then he wore a tiny web, in a little corner sly,
And set his table ready for to dine upon the Fly;
And went out to his door again, and merrily did sing,
Come hither, pretty little Fly, with the gold and silver wing.
Alas, alas! how very soon this silly little Fly,
Hearing his wily flattering words, came slowly fluttering by.
With humming wings she hung aloft, then nearer and nearer drew.
Thinking only of her crested head and gold and purple hue:
Thinking only of her brilliant wings, poor silly thing! at last,
Up jump'd the cruel Spider, and firmly held her fast!
He dragg'd her up his winding stair, into his dismal den,
Within his little parlour; but she ne'er came down again.
And now, my pretty maidens, who may this story hear,
To silly, idle, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give ear;
Unto an evil counsellor close heart, and ear, and eye,
And learn a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly.
Oh Mary, Contrary, How does your garden grow?
FriskyChan Come with me and you'll be the seventh maid in a row
My answer was laughter, soft as I lowered my head.
You're to late I'm afraid this flower's already dead.
With midnight screams and nightmare dreams. Oh, how the blood doth flow.
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT THIS!!! >:O
Lots of fertiliser xD
+ISS600 Resetting as I was, with blossoms in full bloom.
I always had a theory that ring around the rosies a pocket full of posies ASHES ASHES (a fire) WE ALL FALL DOWN (they all died) [so I always just called "ring around the rosies" "the death song"]
Great name for it
its worth pointing out "London Bridge has Fallen" is code for the english monarch has died
ftwkh85 not really I thought that was obvious 🙈 I am Scottish though
Clorox Bleach here in the states most dont know anything about the UK
ftwkh85 Wow lol xD same here
Though in Scotland we only learn English history in school
We know next to nothing about anywhere else including scotland
Lol ring around, not ringa ringa
D Turley pocket full of possies ashes ashes we all fall down
I always thought of it as "Ring, a ring of roses"...
Hahaha where did he get tissues? I always heard it as ashes ashes we all fall down because they would burn the bodies and the ashes would fall on the city
As far as I remember from my history: as they thought that the plague was transmitted through bad smells people would breath through flowers wrapped in tissues (handkerchiefs more likely) to ward it off... when I was younger we were taught "a tissue, a tissue. We all fall down." (maybe it's a british/american difference [I'm British])
In England it's Ringa Ringa Roses
My dreams are fucking shattered......
weirdCentral 11 good for you
Galaxy Gal thanks person 😂
weirdCentral 11 ya I am going to kill myself because my childhood is fucking with my head not actually going to kill myself ok 😱😨😵
samurai 607 ok GOOOOODDDD
Deborah Wagner no can do.....no can do... 😂😂😂😂
This one time I sang”jack and Jill went up a pill to fetch a pal of water.” Do you see the mistake I made?! XD
@Costy 96
tbh I forgot this comment existed
0:54-0:59 *_I laughed so hard i drowned in my tears_*
-yep im in my second life-
you missed humpty dumpty because he technically wasn't a egg at first he actually was a kid but they change it because no one wants to see a kid die/crack their heads so yeah
I was taught he was a cannon in the English civil war that fell off the battlements of a castle
I do it's better then Humpty Dumpty merge well say it plain and simple then hide it
AbethegreatGAMING I crack my neck before
ACTUALLY ACTUALLY it was about a king that went insane, and ended up killing him self
Blondie Lockes when?
I was told that the *ringa ringa* rhyme's backstory was:
Kids who were dancing around together and the *poseys* we're poisonous mushrooms, then, the children ate them and they died..*fell down*
TwitterGirl Alcala
The nursery rhyme ( Ring around the rosie ) is about the black plague. Here is what each line means.
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Ring around the Rosy
One of the first visible signs of infection were red rings surrounding a rosy bump, all over the victim's body.
Pocket full of Posy
A common belief of the time was that the plague was borne on "foul air." The rationale was that people could protect themselves from the bad air by keeping their local air smelling sweet. That, and it also helped them deal with the smell of death...
On the other hand, another sign of infection was the foul stench that would begin to emanate from the victim's body as their lymph system began filling with blood. Those still mobile endeavored to mask their stench and avoid detection by carrying flowers on their person.
Ashes, Ashes,
In the terminal phases of the disease, victims would be hemorrhaging internally, sometimes triggering sneezing as it irritated the breathing passages. "Ashes" is a child's approximation of a paroxysm of sneezing. In this weakened state, a victim could, and often did, sneeze their lungs out.
We all Fall Down
Death.
Some historians say that Ring a Ring a Roses was written in the 1750s and didn't get associated with the plagues until the 1950s.
Unfortunately, thats all incorrect - look at this site:
www.medicinenet.com/plague_facts/article.htm
Plague does not have rosy rings, and does not cause sneezing. It has just about every other symptom, diarrhoea, vomiting, chills, shortness of breath, headache, swollen nymph nodes, and of course the black boils that give its its name... but two symptoms that don't occur are sneezing and red rings.. so not the meaning of the nursery rhyme, Iain is correct below... someone came up with that in the 1950s and it stuck.
Jack and Jill went up a hill
And then went and took a pill
And they soon got very ill
All because of Katie hill
What are we supposed to read or sing to our children when there to young to hear Shakespeare or Stephen King.
*cough* They aren't too young for Shakespeare and such, besides, there's plenty of books in the world. Also, nobody said you couldn't read it to your children, just prepare for them to discover videos like this one and cry themselves to sleep.
I thought ring around the rosey being about the plague was a myth
Sammy Buckle It is. They just wanted it on the list.
It is a myth. It was debunked on QI and if you can't trust Steven Fry who can you trust?
It's really about hay fever.
It is, what culture is just horseshit for anything not media related
It is. This guy is an idiot.
Actually, the bit about Ring around the Rosy is not quite true from a historical standpoint. The earliest known version of the children's lyric actually dates back to over a century after the events of the Black Death. It is true that a commonly held belief in many circles is that song is a reference to the Bubonic Plague, but there is no historical evidence to actually support it.
Silver Dragon Wolf no I I was for the black death triple checked
Brett Herring it is commonly believed, and stated to be a reference to the Black Death, but that doesn't change the fact that the earliest known records of the song can only be dated to a few decades after the Black Death
I made a this one up because it might not be the right reason but this is it . The rhyme that says 5 little ducks went out one day over the hills and far away mother duck said “quack quack quack quack” but only 4 little ducks came back, I think it means that the ducks got kidnapped one buy one until there was none left then they escaped or 5 different ducklings came back and the mother duck thought they were her ducklings. I’m not sure if that’s correct but that’s just what I think