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LindseyA 07:42 AM 06-08-2016
I was thinking about this as I just taught more DCKs this song - - I am wondering how many of you know the second verse to Ring Around the Rosie! Since none of my DCKs I have ever had (in almost 10 years!) knew it. I grew up singing both verses - my grandmother and mother taught me when I was a kid. We sing :
Ring around the Rosie,
Pockets full of posies,
Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down!
The cows are in the Meadow,
Eating buttercups!
Thunder (slap the floor)
Lightening (clap hands)
We all stand up!
So now I'm wondering if there are more verses to songs that are not very common!
Ring around the Rosie,
Pockets full of posies,
Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down!
The cows are in the Meadow,
Eating buttercups!
Thunder (slap the floor)
Lightening (clap hands)
We all stand up!
So now I'm wondering if there are more verses to songs that are not very common!
sleepinghart 07:54 AM 06-08-2016
Originally Posted by LindseyA:
I was thinking about this as I just taught more DCKs this song - - I am wondering how many of you know the second verse to Ring Around the Rosie! Since none of my DCKs I have ever had (in almost 10 years!) knew it. I grew up singing both verses - my grandmother and mother taught me when I was a kid. We sing :
Ring around the Rosie,
Pockets full of posies,
Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down!
The cows are in the Meadow,
Eating buttercups!
Thunder (slap the floor)
Lightening (clap hands)
We all stand up!
So now I'm wondering if there are more verses to songs that are not very common!
I was thinking about this as I just taught more DCKs this song - - I am wondering how many of you know the second verse to Ring Around the Rosie! Since none of my DCKs I have ever had (in almost 10 years!) knew it. I grew up singing both verses - my grandmother and mother taught me when I was a kid. We sing :
Ring around the Rosie,
Pockets full of posies,
Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down!
The cows are in the Meadow,
Eating buttercups!
Thunder (slap the floor)
Lightening (clap hands)
We all stand up!
So now I'm wondering if there are more verses to songs that are not very common!
~I still like, and believe it's okay to sing, "Ring Around The Rosie" even though many parents round here don't anymore because they believe it has plague origins and all. Anyway, this is how we sang it when I was little(just a bit different on the last line there I think):"Ring around the Rosie,
Pockets full of posies,
Upstairs, Downstairs, we all fall down!"
Josiegirl 09:39 AM 06-08-2016
I only learned the 2nd verse within the past year. 
But that's the way we sing it all the time now.
But that's the way we sing it all the time now.
Mariahsaint 10:05 AM 06-08-2016
Until about... well, right now, I only knew the first verse! 
Sunshine74 10:14 AM 06-08-2016
Originally Posted by Mariahsaint:
Until about... well, right now, I only knew the first verse!
Same here. I like it!Until about... well, right now, I only knew the first verse!
Unregistered 10:39 AM 06-08-2016
One of the kids I had sang:
Ring around the rosy
Pocket full o' posies
Ashes, Ashes
We all fall down!
Picking up the daisies
Picking up the daisies
Up, up, up
We all stand up!
Ring around the rosy
Pocket full o' posies
Ashes, Ashes
We all fall down!
Picking up the daisies
Picking up the daisies
Up, up, up
We all stand up!
Unregistered 01:32 PM 06-08-2016
I learned this 2nd verse:
Sheep are in the meadow
Lying fast asleep
Ashes ashes
We all jump to our feet
It's all supposed to be related to the plague or something that killed lots of people and animals. The sleeping sheep are dead Cheery, hmm?
Sheep are in the meadow
Lying fast asleep
Ashes ashes
We all jump to our feet
It's all supposed to be related to the plague or something that killed lots of people and animals. The sleeping sheep are dead
Cheery, hmm?
Unregistered 01:34 PM 06-08-2016
But then we also did this version:
Ring around a rocket
Try to catch a star
Stardust stardust
Fall where you are
Ring around a rocket
Try to catch a star
Stardust stardust
Fall where you are
Josiegirl 02:18 PM 06-08-2016
Originally Posted by Unregistered:
But then we also did this version:
Ring around a rocket
Try to catch a star
Stardust stardust
Fall where you are
That's cute!But then we also did this version:
Ring around a rocket
Try to catch a star
Stardust stardust
Fall where you are
Unregistered 03:31 PM 06-08-2016
I only used learned the second verse last year too. I learned
Cows are in the meadow eating buttercups
Ashes, ashes, we all stand up.
For years I've done
Ring around the rocket
Moonbeams in my pocket
Stardust, stardust
We all fall down!
Cows are in the meadow eating buttercups
Ashes, ashes, we all stand up.
For years I've done
Ring around the rocket
Moonbeams in my pocket
Stardust, stardust
We all fall down!
LindseyA 04:51 PM 06-08-2016
OP here. I've heard of the black plague meaning behind this rhyme, so I just did a little research. (I know, I'm nerdy - but knowledge is power right?)
The black plague spread through Europe in 1347. By 1350 the plague killed one third of the world's population. The first publication of Ring Around the Rosie appeared in Kate Greenway's 'Mother Goose or Old Nursery Rhymes' in 1881. For this to REALLY be about the plague, we have to believe that children were reciting this for over 5 centuries, yet not one person found it popular enough to merit writing it down. There are no known examples of this rhyme in Middle English or Modern English forms.
To each his own! I say believe what you want. Just thought it was an interesting twist
Again, sorry for my nerdy ways!
The black plague spread through Europe in 1347. By 1350 the plague killed one third of the world's population. The first publication of Ring Around the Rosie appeared in Kate Greenway's 'Mother Goose or Old Nursery Rhymes' in 1881. For this to REALLY be about the plague, we have to believe that children were reciting this for over 5 centuries, yet not one person found it popular enough to merit writing it down. There are no known examples of this rhyme in Middle English or Modern English forms.
To each his own! I say believe what you want. Just thought it was an interesting twist
Again, sorry for my nerdy ways!
sleepinghart 06:28 AM 06-09-2016
Originally Posted by LindseyA:
OP here. I've heard of the black plague meaning behind this rhyme, so I just did a little research. (I know, I'm nerdy - but knowledge is power right?)
The black plague spread through Europe in 1347. By 1350 the plague killed one third of the world's population. The first publication of Ring Around the Rosie appeared in Kate Greenway's 'Mother Goose or Old Nursery Rhymes' in 1881. For this to REALLY be about the plague, we have to believe that children were reciting this for over 5 centuries, yet not one person found it popular enough to merit writing it down. There are no known examples of this rhyme in Middle English or Modern English forms.
To each his own! I say believe what you want. Just thought it was an interesting twist Again, sorry for my nerdy ways!
OP here. I've heard of the black plague meaning behind this rhyme, so I just did a little research. (I know, I'm nerdy - but knowledge is power right?)
The black plague spread through Europe in 1347. By 1350 the plague killed one third of the world's population. The first publication of Ring Around the Rosie appeared in Kate Greenway's 'Mother Goose or Old Nursery Rhymes' in 1881. For this to REALLY be about the plague, we have to believe that children were reciting this for over 5 centuries, yet not one person found it popular enough to merit writing it down. There are no known examples of this rhyme in Middle English or Modern English forms.
To each his own! I say believe what you want. Just thought it was an interesting twist
Again, sorry for my nerdy ways!~Please don't be sorry! I'm glad you looked it up
. It should have been looked up- I was too lazy to. Thank you
!
284878 07:19 PM 06-09-2016
Originally Posted by LindseyA:
OP here. I've heard of the black plague meaning behind this rhyme, so I just did a little research. (I know, I'm nerdy - but knowledge is power right?)
The black plague spread through Europe in 1347. By 1350 the plague killed one third of the world's population. The first publication of Ring Around the Rosie appeared in Kate Greenway's 'Mother Goose or Old Nursery Rhymes' in 1881. For this to REALLY be about the plague, we have to believe that children were reciting this for over 5 centuries, yet not one person found it popular enough to merit writing it down. There are no known examples of this rhyme in Middle English or Modern English forms.
To each his own! I say believe what you want. Just thought it was an interesting twist Again, sorry for my nerdy ways!
I was told something similar by a home visitor when my dd was younger. She said a lot of the nursery rhymes were pretty morbid and that the rhymes were done to tell a story, in a way it would be easier to remember. OP here. I've heard of the black plague meaning behind this rhyme, so I just did a little research. (I know, I'm nerdy - but knowledge is power right?)
The black plague spread through Europe in 1347. By 1350 the plague killed one third of the world's population. The first publication of Ring Around the Rosie appeared in Kate Greenway's 'Mother Goose or Old Nursery Rhymes' in 1881. For this to REALLY be about the plague, we have to believe that children were reciting this for over 5 centuries, yet not one person found it popular enough to merit writing it down. There are no known examples of this rhyme in Middle English or Modern English forms.
To each his own! I say believe what you want. Just thought it was an interesting twist
Again, sorry for my nerdy ways!I am one that believes that "ring around rosie" is about death. However, I feel that there is nothing wrong to singing it as I have never heard of a child having a nightmare about a nursery rhyme. Unlike some of the other things that parents expose there kids too.