Where did “Ring around the rosie” originate from?
ring a round a rosie, symptoms including red rings like shingles on the infected person, as well as repertory failingspocket full of posie, is that they would use posies to cover up the smell of death ,atchoo atchoo we all fall down, is about the bubonic plague and how once you got the cold you would soon die.
I have heard that it was a originally a teaching song about the plague. The “ring around the rosie” was a description of the sores/lesions. The “pocket full of posies” referred to carrying flowers to mask the odor of decomposing bodies. “Ashes, ashes, we all fall down” was supposed to have referred to the buring of bodies after they died and “fell down.” I don’t know if all that’s true, but it’s what I’ve heard.
