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"Ring a Ring o' Roses", also known as "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song, and playground game. Descriptions first appeared in the mid-19th century, though it is reported to date from decades earlier. Similar rhymes are known across Europe, with varying lyrics.
The title is a mockery of American children's game Chutes and Ladders (also known in the United Kingdom as Snakes and Ladders), with the song's lyrics mostly consisting of nursery rhymes. It is the first Korn song to feature bagpipes. [8] The song uses the following nursery rhymes in its lyrics: [9] "Ring a Ring o' Roses" "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"
Ring-a-Ring o' Roses 'Ring Around the Rosie' United Kingdom 1881 [85] Origin unknown, there is no evidence linking it to the Great Plague or earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England. Roses Are Red: Great Britain 1784 [86] A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland. Row, Row, Row Your Boat ...
Quaker Meeting, also known as Quaker's meeting or Cracker's Meeting (in the American South), is a child's game which is initiated with a rhyme and becomes a sort of quiet game where the participants may not speak, laugh, or smile, while the player in charge of the "meeting" may act like a comedian in an attempt to elicit one of the forbidden responses, and so get the participant who broke the ...
The rhyme was first collected in Britain in the late 1940s. [2] Since teddy bears did not come into vogue until the twentieth century it is likely to be fairly recent in its current form, but Iona and Peter Opie suggest that it is probably a version of an older rhyme, "Round about there": [2]
The first noting of the rhyme/song is by Alice Gomme in 1898 in her book The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [4] The author Karen Maitland has speculated that the song might be a reference to folklore about bluebells, in particular that a bluebell wood in bloom was seen as an enchanted place where fairies lived. A child who ...
This page needs merging with Ring-a-ring of roses, or visa-versa Agreed, but this version should be merged with "Ring-a-ring of Roses", as the rhyme is English, and "Ring around the Rosie" appears to be a North American alteration. Well it seems that the merge was made at some time, but without paying attention to the comments above.
Pages in category "Films based on nursery rhymes" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I.