Are nursery Ryhmes really all that kid friendly?

Question

I heard that many nursery ryhmes made back than had sexual innundo and racism in them. Can someone tell me more?

Answer 1

Obviously theyre not that great if one of them's about a baby falling out of a tree.

Answer 2

lol I do know one,

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, but God knows what they did up there when they came down with a daughter.

Answer 3

Ummm, that's all very untrue and all conspiracy theories. Don't even worry about it.

Answer 4

did you know that ring around the rosie was a reference to the black plague?

http://www.rhymes.org.uk/

Answer 5

jack and jill went up the hill to smoke maijuana,

jack felt high and opened his fly,

and asked jill do you wanna,

jill said yes and they had fun,

ine months after they had a son.

Answer 6

I never heard that... like which ones?

Answer 7

Jack and Jill, a reference to alcohol and a revolution. In the ryhme, Jack and Jill go up the hill, a jill would be Gold, and a Jack is a measure of alcohol. The size of a jack would be decided by the king. As jack gets higher and higher so does Jill. Then they get to high and jack falls and breaks his crown, in other words. Alcohol gets expensive, money becomes harder to get, and the citizens overthrow the king, breaking the crown.

There is another one, its a little song, i forget the words but at the end it says ashes, ashes we all fall down. When the plague was going around, way, way, way, back, people would burn the dead to stop the plague from spreading. the we all fall down would be dieing, and the ashes ashes part is the burning.