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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.
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 ...
Examples of a traditional rhyme include the historically significant Ring Around the Rosie, the doggerel love poem Roses Are Red, and the wedding rhyme Something old, something new. However, traditional rhymes are not necessarily ancient.
Ring around the rosie, A pocket full of posies, A tissue, a tissue, We all fall down. It was mentioned that "Ring a round the Rosie" was a North American version, however I was raised in Taunton, Somerset, England prior to emigrating to southern Ontario in Canada. "Ring around the rosie" was the version I learned in Somerset.
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Everyone is so happy when singing 'Ring Around the Rosie' but it is about the Black Plague. All of them have these evil stories behind them." All of them have these evil stories behind them." – Jonathan Davis [ 10 ]
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The nursery rhyme "Ring a Ring o' Roses", also known as "Ring Around The Rosie", is mistakenly referred to as a metaphorical reference to the Great Plague of London. This has no source and no qualification given. It is a popular belief and cannot simply be dismissed as mistaken.--JimiQ 19:01, 18 December 2007 (UTC)