sissymary wrote:
Ring around the rozy (a ring around a red sore on your skin), pockets full of posies (they put flowers in the pockets of the dead), ashes ashes we all fall down, (fall down as in dead), ashes ashes, (they burned the bodies of the dead). Ever hear this nursery rhyme when girls skipped rope when they were young. It's from/about the black death or plague.