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Am I the only one just finding out how weird and freaky "Ring Around The Rosie" is??

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chris
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Re: Am I the only one just finding out how weird and freaky "Ring Around The Rosie" is??

What about Rock a bye baby....about the cradle falling down?

Posted 4/18/06 5:43 PM
 
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Mommyof2
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Emily

Re: Am I the only one just finding out how weird and freaky "Ring Around The Rosie" is??

I always have and always will stand by the notion that nursery rhymes are not for childern.


Peter Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her!
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well!

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.

Cry Baby Bunting
Daddy's gone a-hunting
Gone to fetch a rabbit skin
To wrap the Baby Bunting in
Cry Baby Bunting

Bye, baby bumpkin
Where’s Tony Lumpkin
My lady’s on her death-bed,
For eating half a pumpkin

Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor doggie a bone,
When she got there
The cupboard was bare
So the poor little doggie had none.

Every night when I go out
The monkey's on the table
Take a stick and knock it off
Pop goes the weasel

It's raining, it's pouring
The old man is snoring
He went to bed and bump his bed
And couldn't get up in the morning.

Red sky at night,
Sailor's delight;
Red sky at morning,
Sailor's warning.
(I was always told when the sky is red it means we're being sucked into a black hole. It scared the cr#p out of me, so I never believed it)

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tiggled inside her;
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;
Fancy that to swallow a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;
What a hog, to swallow a dog;
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow;
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse...
She's dead, of course!

"Who killed Cock Robin?" "I," said the Sparrow,
"With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin."
"Who saw him die?" "I," said the Fly,
"With my little eye, I saw him die."
"Who caught his blood?" "I," said the Fish,
"With my little dish, I caught his blood."
"Who'll make the shroud?" "I," said the Beetle,
"With my thread and needle, I'll make the shroud."
"Who'll dig his grave?" "I," said the Owl,
"With my pick and shovel, I'll dig his grave."
"Who'll be the parson?" "I," said the Rook,
"With my little book, I'll be the parson."
"Who'll be the clerk?" "I," said the Lark,
"If it's not in the dark, I'll be the clerk."
"Who'll carry the link?" "I," said the Linnet,
"I'll fetch it in a minute, I'll carry the link."
"Who'll be chief mourner?" "I," said the Dove,
"I mourn for my love, I'll be chief mourner."
"Who'll carry the coffin?" "I," said the Kite,
"If it's not through the night, I'll carry the coffin."
"Who'll bear the pall? "We," said the Wren,
"Both the cock and the hen, we'll bear the pall."
"Who'll sing a psalm?" "I," said the Thrush,
"As she sat on a bush, I'll sing a psalm."
"Who'll toll the bell?" "I," said the bull,
"Because I can pull, I'll toll the bell."
All the birds of the air fell a-sighing and a-sobbing,
When they heard the bell toll for poor Cock Robin.


These are my two favorite:
(Wee willie Winkie sounds like a nut case, I'd call the cops. Then I'd call CPS on the woman in the shoe.)

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,
Tapping at the window and crying through the lock,
Are all the children in their beds, it's past eight o'clock?

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn't know what to do!
So she gave them some broth without any bread,
And she whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed!


Just to name a few. Alice and Wonderland was written while the author was on Acid, which explains its trippiness. And the guy who wrote Peter Pan wrote it because when he was a little boy his younger brother died and his mother was so depressed about it she stayed in bed for years. Well, he went into his mother's room and told her that she shouldn't be so sad because she has another son. She told him, "Yes, but you will grow up." That pained him so much that when he was adult he wrote Peter Pan for his son about a boy who would never grow up. Oh, and didn't snow white's stepmother order her heart be cut out and brought back to her in a box?

Message edited 4/18/2006 9:48:46 PM.

Posted 4/18/06 9:46 PM
 

JenniferEver
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Jennifer

Re: Am I the only one just finding out how weird and freaky "Ring Around The Rosie" is??

According to Snopes.com a lot fo these perceptions including "ring around the rosie is about the black plague" are false.

ETA: Actually to add to the story of J.M Barrie who wrote Peter Pan, his father was absent, his mother stayed in bed for years pining over her dead son, and when Jim entered the room she would say "oh it's just you", and she longed fore her perfect boy. Barrie only grew to be 5'2, in a form of stress dwarfism, and many of his stories are about little boys who never grow up, because that's what he became

Message edited 4/18/2006 9:49:36 PM.

Posted 4/18/06 9:47 PM
 

Salason

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Re: Am I the only one just finding out how weird and freaky "Ring Around The Rosie" is??

Posted by LRusso

It's about the Black Plague? Ring around the rosie is the plague surrounding England (the Rose); pocket full of posie is flowers they stuffed in pockets of the dead so they wouldn't smell; ashes ashes we all fall down. How f'd up?! Ruined my fond memories!

All those fairy tales are odd; wolves eating little girls...Jack and his magic beans. How trippy! And what is with "London Bridge is falling down?" That's just sick, too! Humph!



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Posted 4/18/06 9:52 PM
 

oakslady
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Re: Am I the only one just finding out how weird and freaky "Ring Around The Rosie" is??

Posted by Boobobunny

In college I took a class called.."myths legends and fairytales" In the class we read the orginal versions of the fairytales we all grew up with. The original versions were not for children...lets put it this was...the Grim's Brothers...were very GRIM!!!!



very true definately adult stuff

Posted 4/19/06 2:07 AM
 

lvdolphins
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Re: Am I the only one just finding out how weird and freaky "Ring Around The Rosie" is??

OMGosh I never new this..I mean I know the words, however, I never really put "thought" into it.
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Posted 4/19/06 6:54 AM
 

Stacey1403
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Re: Am I the only one just finding out how weird and freaky "Ring Around The Rosie" is??

When I was little we had the Grimm's fairy tales book. Yikes is all I can say.

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Posted 4/19/06 7:09 AM
 
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