#Sea of roses game full#

'When my daughter was in nursery school in a village in Oxfordshire, England in 1977 she sang a second verse to 'Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down!'. In the northern counties of England the children use the words, 'Hushu! Hushu!' in the third line.' Green noted, ' Ring A-Ring O' Roses, is known in Italy and Germany. Green's book, A History of Nursery Rhymes (printed in London in 1899): It's an interesting part of the history of this song, that most people believe it's connected to the plague. Thanks to Steven for sending me his version and comments about this song. They get a ring of spots or inflammation (the ring of rosies), try to stop catching or passing it on by carrying a 'pocket full of posies', start to sneeze ('A'Tishoo A'Tishoo') and then 'fall down' dead. I find it interesting because it dates from the time of the Great Plague (1665) and is about what happens to people who catch it. 'I notice that your site has some great, obscure rhymes on it from England but is missing one of the best known and (to me) historically interesting: Ring-a-ring o' Rosies.

It shows what most people believe about this song: It's the first version of this song found in print.

Here's the Kate Greenaway version from her book 'Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes' (1881).