So many versions of Ring-a Ring-a roses! Which to use?

Question

Ring-a Ring-a roses

pocket full of posies

a tishu a tishu

we all fall down

Down on the bottom

of deep blue see

catching fishes for my tea

up by one, two, three!!!!

Answer 1

ring o ring o roses

a pocket full of posies

atishoo atishoo we all fall down!

cows in the meadow eating buttercups

atishoo atishoo

we all jump up!

Answer 2

I've never heard that second verse

We sing:

ring around the rosies

Pocket full of posies

Ashes ashes

we all fall down.

that's it - we are all fallen down!  and usually giggling!

Answer 3

Depends what you want it for because ring a ring a roses is a song about the plaque

Answer 4

Ring-a Ring-a roses

pocket full of posies

ashes ashes

we all fall down

Cows are in the meadow

eating buttercups

thunder and lightening

we all stand up!

Answer 5

it is actually ashes ashes because ring around the rosie is actually about the black plague and the ring stands for the boils on the skin the poses stand for people putting them in their pockets to cover up that they were rotting ashes stands for the burning of the bodies and all fall down is the millions of people dying, so you chose a really gross rhyme i think the bottom one is better because i have never heard of it before and its fun to be different

Answer 6

the first one

Answer 7

the 1st one it's the traditonal one

Answer 8

I loved them both

Answer 9

We say,

Ring around the roses

a pocket full of posies

upstairs, down stairs

we all fall down.

We hold hands in a circle and squat down, then stand up as we say upstairs, downstairs

and we sit when we say , all fall down.

The movement makes it fun for the kids.

Answer 10

ring around the rosey pockets full of posey ashes ashes we all fall down? well thats the one i grew up on... i think its the origianal because it desribes the black plege very well and as it gose.. thats where it came from...

Answer 11

The way I learned it and I taught my daughter is the same as the second answer.

Ring around the rosey

Pockets full of posies

Ashes Ashes

We all fall down

Answer 12

First

for wat?

Answer 13

I was taught

Ring-a-Ring a roses

Pocket full of posies

A tissue A tissue

We all fall down

Fishes in the water

Fishes in the sea

We all jump up with a 1-2-3!

Hoorah!

I haven't sung that for years :-)

Answer 14

i sing it as two verses i do ring a ring a roses then when we all fall down, i fall down i start tapping the floor and sing down at the bottom of the deep blue see then at the 3 we jump back up again .  ( i work in a nursery incase your thinking i go around singing ringaringa roses on my own)

Answer 15

I like the first one because that is one that i used to sing when i was small!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you

Answer 16

ring around the rosey pockets full of posey ashes ashes we all fall down what i knew and what we teach our preschoolers at our school it is so interesting that there are many other try what ever they know or what you truley want them to lear out of it evey nursry rhyme and story and movment has a lesson its up to the certian person

Answer 17

Ring a Ring o' Roses

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"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. A widespread popular belief in modern times is that the rhyme is concerned with the plague.

Contents [hide]

1 Variations and History

1.1 Game

1.2 Verses

1.2.1 Early attestation

1.2.2 Current versions

1.2.3 Other Languages

2 Plague interpretation

3 References

4 Footnotes



[edit] Variations and History

[edit] Game

The words of Ring a Ring o' Roses differ by region, although the tune remains consistent. The playground game that accompanies these verses also changes by region, but the most common form consists of participants standing a circle and holding hands, followed by skipping in one direction as they sing the tune that accompanies these verses. At the end of the line We all fall down, the group usually falls down into a heap. Lyrics to other versions show that the final action was sometimes sitting, stooping, squatting, or even a curtsey, rather than falling.[1] In some versions of the game the last down would choose a favourite or take the place of another in the middle of the ring.[2] Ring games which end in flopping to the ground or similar are common throughout Europe.[3]

[edit] Verses

[edit] Early attestation



Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose illustration of children playing the game (from Project Gutenberg).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.

The rhyme must already have been widely distributed. A novel of 1855, The Old Homestead by Ann S. Stephens, shows children playing "Ring, ring a rosy" in New York.[4] William Newell reports two versions in America at much the same time as Greenaway (1883) and says that another was known in New Bedford, Massachusetts around 1790:[5]

Ring a ring a Rosie,

A bottle full of posie,

All the girls in our town

Ring for little Josie.

There are also versions in Shropshire, collected in 1883, and a manuscript of rhymes collected in Lancashire at the same period gives three closely related versions, with the now familiar sneezing,[6] for instance:

A ring, a ring o' roses,

A pocket full o’posies-

Atch chew! atch chew!

In 1892, Alice Gomme could give twelve versions, including one resembling the current British one (see below).[7]

Answer 18

When I was little it was just the first part that you have written but my 10 year old was taught both verses to be sung one after the other.

Have a look here

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

it gives you the history