Some eerie truth abuot ''Ring around the Rosie?

I just learned it in my history class. Here it goes...

It's about the Bubonic Plague. It took out 1/3 of the people in Europe years back.

Ring around the roseie...

In the disease, you would have rings around you. Especially around your pinkie. Which they used to call the roseie.

Pocket full of posies...

Posies are flowers (duh)...and the smell was to take away the smell of the dead (like a past lysol)

Ashes, Ashes...

When people died of this desease, they had to burn their body in stead of burying it so the desease wouldn't spread from the dead body.

And I think you can figure out the We all fall down part.

Now you'll think twice before you sing that...
 
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