London Bridge is falling down? ....they all fall down! This was a terrible catastrophy where so many people lost their lives when the London Bridge collapsed.
Rock-a-bye-baby on the tree top? ....when the bough breaks ....down will come cradle, baby and all. What's up with that?
Ring around the rosie. Pockets full of Posies. Ashes, ashes, they all fall down? This was the Bubonic Plague!!! One of it's charactaristics is rosie colored bumps with a circle around them. They stuffed the pockets of the dead with Posies to help mask the stench as they stacked and burned the bodies. Periodically, as the bodies turned to ashes, the piles would collapse.
Why are these childrens' songs?
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