Ring Around the Rosie

by Anonymous

Ring Around the Rosie, also called Ring a Ring o' Roses is nursery rhyme that first appeared in print in 1881, though it was sung by children holding hands, moving in a circle since the the 1790s. The popular American version is below.

Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose, Ring-a-ring-a-roses, 1881

　　Ring-a-round the rosie, A pocket full of posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down.

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