Ill give 10 points to whover can figure out where this nursery rhyme is from?

Question

ring around the rosie

pockets full of posey

ashes ashes

we all fall down

Answer 1

It comes from medievel times during the plage.  Ring around the rosies ment they had red circles on their bodies. Pocket full of posies they had to put flowers in their pockets to cover up the smell of their rotting bodies.  Ashes Ashes means they had to burn their belongs and all fall down means they died

Answer 2

I agree with the plague, the skin lesions and the poseys;  but when I was a child "ashes ashes" was "A-chew A-chew" simulating the symptomatic sneeze.

Answer 3

the black plague.

Answer 4

in my world history class, i was told that "ring around the rosie" referred to the rosary beads that most everyone held while praying over the dead/dieing; "pockets full of posies" referred to the very fragrant flowers that were stuffed in the dead people's pockets to keep them from smelling because people were dieing so fast that there wasnt anywhere to bury them; "ashes ashes" referred to when they decided to burn the bodies due to the afore mentiond lack of space; and "we all fall down" referred to everyone dieing.

Answer 5

it's about the bubonic plague

kinda creepy that I used to sing it when I was little. I was singing about people dieing, who knew?

Answer 6

The plaque

ring around the rosie......was the rosie rash

pockets full of posies....were carried for protection

a tishoo,  a tishoo or a chew, a chew.....represented the sneezing

ashes, ashes....the cremation of the bodies to stop the spread of the disease

we all fall down...the mass amounts of people that died

Answer 7

it's from a long time ago when there was a terrible epidemic deasie that was killing thousands. ring around the rosie was like at a funeral, with pockets full of poseys, at a funeral u have flowers . ashes ashes , peoples bodies u know creamated and we all fall down. dying. it's pretty sick.

Answer 8

They came up with it during the time of the Black Death.

---"Ring around the Rosie"--refers to a red mark, supposedly the first sign of the plague

---"A pocket full of posies"-- refers to sachets of herbs carried to ward off infection

---"Ashes, ashes" --either a reference to the cremation of plague victims or to the words said in the funeral Mass..."Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Sometimes line three is rendered as "Atischoo, atischoo"--sneezing, another sign of infection.

---"We all fall down." -- The Plague was not selective in its victims; both rich and poor, young and old, succumbed.

Answer 9

The first printing of the rhyme was in Kate Greenaway’s 1881 edition of Mother Goose:

Ring-a-ring-a-roses,

A pocket full of posies;

Hush! hush! hush! hush!

We’re all tumbled down.

Answer 10

Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground 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 in UK.

Answer 11

London, during the time of the bubonic plaque.

When the dead were put out on the streets, flowers were put in their pockets to signify, that they were dead and needed to be picked up by the trolleys.

Ashes Ashes is to do with the fact that the dead were cremated in a community fire.

Answer 12

its about the plague in the middle ages.  duh

Answer 13

it's about the black plague, the ring around the rosie is the ring you get on your hands and arms where it has set in, the pocket full of posies is meant to keep the smell of rotting flesh from being overwhelming

Answer 14

This nursury rhyme began about 1347 and derives from the not-so-delightful black plague.

Answer 15

Its about the black plaque.

The "ring around a rosie" refers to the round, red rash that is the first symptom of the disease.

"A pocket full of posies" is about how people would carry flowers and place them around the infected person for protection.

"Ashes ashes" is supposed to imitate the sneezing sounds made by the infected person.

Lastly, "we all fall down" is about the people dieing from the disease.

Some people don't realize that this seemingly happy little nursery rhyme actually refers to the black plague. They just think that it is a happy little song.

Can you imagine. As little kids we would of held hands in circles and danced around singing the "happy" nursery rhyme when in fact we were singing a song about death! Little toddlers are singing songs about death!!!

Answer 16

This innocent sounding rhyme, first appearing in the 1881 book Mother Goose, is a much older chant that goes back to the 1660s and is thought to be about the Plague of London which killed 70,000 of the 460,000 residents. "Ring-a-ring o' rosies" refers to the rosy colored rash, an early symptom of the plague.

"Pocket full of posies" refers to the medicine and herbs people carried in their pockets to prevent the plague

Answer 17

from the black death plague in England in the 1600's.

ring around the Rosie were the marks on the skin

Poseys were made from herbs believed to ward off evil spirits and disease.

Ashes to ashes as in the funerals or possibly mass cremations.

we all fall down dead

Answer 18

england.