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 Ring a ring a roses,
A pocket full of poses
A tishoo, A tishoo
We all fall down
The Great Plague was an illness and it killed millions of people in Europe in
the seventeenth century. One of the signs of the illness was a circle of red
marks. They looked like roses, and that explains the first line of the song.
In
the second line, "poses" are small bunches of flowers. People carried flowers
because of the smell of the Plague. "A tishoo" is the sound of a sneeze. That
was another sign of the Plague. Then after a few days people "fell down" or
died.
Another
Ring-around-a-Rosie = People with plague would hang roses around their
heads.
Pockets full of posies = They would stuff their pockets with posies.
Ashes-Ashes = They burned the bodies so the disease did not spread.
We all fall down = (Dead) The top one is what's sung today !
Music
Songs
Ring a ring a roses Oranges and
Lemons Jerusalem Rule Britannia Ding Dong Bell The
Grand old Duke of York Land of Hope and Glory London Bridge is falling down God save
the queen Baa baa
black sheep Goosey
Goosey Gander
Rhymes
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