[blam]

"ring around the rosies, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes we all fall down."

I always heard that it was "up stairs, down stairs, we all fall down."

A buddy of mine transferred to England and he told me that the up stairs, down stairs was a class thing. The very poorest lived on the ground level. That stuff did not recognise class and the up stairs and down stairs were affected equally.

[sbelew]

"Ah-choo, Ah-choo we all fall down" is one version I've heard as being "the original"