Whether or not Ring Around the Rosey is about the plague shouldn't matter. The kids don't know that, nor would they understand if they were told! It wouldn't frighten them enough to stop singing it. I think we're WAY over-analyzing this on an ADULT level. Kids don't think of ANY of that stuff. They're just singing rhyming words with a catchy tune. Period.

For heaven's sake... we teach kids that an old man watches them while they play and sleep, and then he sneaks into our house in the middle of the night. And there are dozens, if not hundreds, of songs about this guy. Why is that not frightening to teach??? Just sayin'

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