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To: united1000
Ring Around The Rosy Rhyme
19 posted on 03/01/2006 7:40:12 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
Alice Gomme records twelve versions in The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1898); the ones quoted below give a good idea of the variable nature of the rhyme:

Ring a ring o' roses,
A pocket full o' posies,
One for me, and one for you,
And one for little Moses--
Hasher, Hasher, Hasher, all fall down.

Ring, a ring o' roses,
A pocket full o' posies;
Up-stairs and down-stairs,
In my lady's chamber--
Husher! Husher! Cuckoo!

Ring, a ring a row-o,
See the children go-o,
Sit below the goose-berry bush;
Hark! they all cry Hush! hush! hush!
Sitty down, sit down.

Duzzy, duzzy gander,
Sugar, milk, and candy;
Hatch-u, hatch-u, all fall down together.

Windy, windy weather,
Cold and frosty weather,
When the wind blows
We all blow together.
I saw Peter!
When did you meet him?
Merrily, cherrily
All fall down.

20 posted on 03/01/2006 7:47:58 PM PST by blam
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