[The Lake City Gar]

Tigers don't have "toes". I doubt if that was the original.

I do wonder what the original actually is.

Isn't "Ring around the rosey, pocket full of posies" about the plague? Put posies in your pocket to keep from getting the plague otherwise you'll have to be burned to "Ashes and fall down"...Or something tramatic like that?

Lots of nursury rhymes are a bit horific when taken literally. I could see there being a...What would be called today..."Racist".

[Caesar Soze]

Isn't "Ring around the rosey, pocket full of posies" about the plague?

No. Do your part to stamp out the belief in urban myths; check Snopes before posting them.

[FreedomCalls]

Tigers don't have "toes". I doubt if that was the original.

I do wonder what the original actually is.

Er..., Saracen? No really. Do you know how many pubs in the UK and Australia are called "The Saracen's Head"? It of course refers to the dismembered head of an Arab as some of the pubs date back to the time of the Crusades. I wonder if there is a movement to change them there? You only need to look on Google to see how many there are.

Isn't "Ring around the rosey, pocket full of posies" about the plague? Put posies in your pocket to keep from getting the plague otherwise you'll have to be burned to "Ashes and fall down"...Or something tramatic like that?

It might refer to the plague. Creepy huh? (Though Snopes says "no".)

Lots of nursury rhymes are a bit horific when taken literally. I could see there being a...What would be called today..."Racist".

Gee, just find the unexpurgated Grimm's Fairy Tales to see how horrific children's stories used to be. You are right.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I don't think anyone actually knows what the original is (as is the case with most children's rhymes), but the n***** version is not plausibly in the running. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (by Iona & Peter Opie, Oxford Univ. Press, 1959) gives only one version, which it says "is remembered now by three generations". This is it:

Eeny, meeny, miney, mo,
Put the baby on the po,
When he's done
Wipe his bum
Shove the paper up the lum.

(Lum is an old Scottish/Northern English word for chimney.)