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The horror--- Children's Rhymes

The horror--- Children's Rhymes

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Feb 24, 2017
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From Pixabay

Ring around the Rosies a pocket full of posies ashes, ashes we all fall down

This was our version of a children's nursery rhyme that I played when I was in elementary school--in the 60s. The origin of this play rhyme dates back to at least 1665 or maybe even farther. Some scholars think it was a child's rhyme about the Black Plague... and oth…

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