Thread: Skipping/playground rhymes
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Unread 02-19-2006, 01:58 PM
David Anthony David Anthony is offline
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Yes, indeed. This was our local version:

Ring a ring o'roses
A pocketful of posies
atishoo, atishoo
We all fall down.

It's a folk memory of the Black Death, I believe.
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