Friday, May 27, 2016

"Ring-a-round-the-roses-a-pocket-full-of-posies"


Description of Coloring Page: popular rhyme from 100 years ago, children dance and chant, circle around and fall to the ground

"Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925. Urban legend says the song originally described the plague, specifically the Great Plague of London, but folklorists reject this idea. Read more...

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