Ring a Ring o' Roses
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- "Ring a Ring o' Roses" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, Dec. 1912)
"Ring a Ring o' Roses", "Ring a Ring o' Rosie", or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game. Descriptions first emerge in the mid-19th century, but are reported as dating from decades before, and similar rhymes are known from across Europe, with various lyrics. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925.
The origin of the song is unknown. There is no evidence for the popular 20th-century interpretation which relates it to the Great Plague, or earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague, in England.Warning: template has been deprecated.