They’re fun little sing-a-longs for little kids at school, each with their own amusing characters and cute stories to tell. But what about those twisted lyrics and dark back stories? The first nursery rhyme collection to be printed was Tommy Thumb's Song Book, around 1744The roots probably go back even further. The bubonic plague killed 15% of Britain’s population, hence “atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down (dead).”Rock-a-bye Baby refers to events preceding the Glorious Revolution. Ring Around the Rosie was one of those nursery rhymes, where we would all hold hands, stand in a circle, and turn while singing it. The floor boards creek under my every step, followed by the echo of my haunting shadow whom I never see. Ring Around the Rosy is steeped in death, decay, and darkness.

Queen Mary was a staunch Catholic and her “garden” here is an allusion to the graveyards which were filling with Protestant martyrs. A classic Nursery Rhyme always sung in preschools, day cares, and kindergarten classes all over. If you actually look at the lyrics to this one, it’s already rather creepy on its own. Since when were these topics deemed appropriate to peddle to toddlers?Since the 14th Century, actually. Ring Around the Rosie is a popular childhood Nursery Rhyme that has been around since the mid 1300’s. The baby in question is supposed to be the son of King James II of England, but was widely believed to be another man’s child, smuggled into the birthing room to ensure a Roman Catholic heir. In the end, … The “silver bells” were thumbscrews; while “cockleshells” are believed to be instruments of torture which were attached to male genitals.Goosey Goosey Gander is another tale of religious persecution but from the other side: it reflects a time when Catholic priests would have to say their forbidden Latin-based prayers in secret – even in the privacy of their own home.Ladybird, Ladybird is also about 16th Century Catholics in Protestant England and the priests who were burned at the stake for their beliefs.Lucy Locket is about a famous spat between two legendary 18th Century prostitutes.Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush originated, according to historian RS Duncan, at Wakefield Prison in England, where female inmates had to exercise around a mulberry tree in the prison yard.Oranges and Lemons follows a condemned man en route to his execution – “Here comes a chopper / To chop off your head!” – past a slew of famous London churches: St Clemens, St Martins, Old Bailey, Bow, Stepney, and Shoreditch.Oranges and Lemons has inspired a children’s game in which kids try to avoid being caught by the ‘executioner’s ax’ as ‘Chop! A pocket full of posies is a reference to people would carrying posies (flowers) around to not smell the sickening scent of dead bodies everywhere. Familiarly known as "Ring Around the Rosie" this nursery rhyme conjures images of laughing children dancing in a circle among scattered flower petals, not people collapsing into death after suffering a plague. Ring around the Rosie lyric meaning: Ring around the rosie is a reference to the black sores that would appear on your body as part of the plague. Heads being chopped off in central London? According to There were actually a few nursery rhymes based around the gruesome exploits of Bloody Mary, and Three Blind Mice is another example. The words describe the contemporary practice in treating it, and refer to the fate so many befell. "Ring around a rosie, a pocket full of posies. Although never confirmed, this seemingly harmless nursery rhyme is believed by many people to refer to the Black Plague in Europe during the Middle Ages. A random sample of 10 popular nursery rhymes shows this.Baa Baa Black Sheep is about the medieval wool tax, imposed in the 13th Century by King Edward I. Any … Plague, medieval taxes, religious persecution, prostitution: these are not exactly the topics that you expect to be immersed in as a new parent.

There is no human culture that has not invented some form of rhyming ditties for its children. According to child development experts Sue Palmer and Ros Bayley, nursery rhymes with music significantly aid a child's mental development and spatial reasoning. Another nursery rhyme that seems cute and innocent but is actually rather morbid when we look closer is Ring Around the Rosie. The story seems to go that men would spend their money on drink and have to pawn their best coat in order to raise more.Finally, we’ll end with Rock-A-Bye Baby. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down." Seth Lerer, dean of arts and humanities at the University California – San Diego, has also emphasised the ability of nursery rhymes to foster emotional connections and cultivate language. This one you may have already heard of: "Ring Around the Rosie" may well have started as … In largely illiterate societies, the catchy sing-song melodies helped people remember the stories and, crucially, pass them on to the next generation. Chop!’ is shouted (Credit: Getty Images)Pop Goes The Weasel is an apparently nonsensical rhyme that, upon subsequent inspection, reveals itself to in fact be about poverty, pawnbroking, the minimum wage – and hitting the Eagle Tavern on London’s City Road.In our own sanitised times, the idea of presenting these gritty themes “A lot of children's literature has a very dark origin,” explained Lerer to Today.com. This video was made in part using knowledge from the following sources:

The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (published in 1785), defines a Humpty-dumpty as a “short, dumpy, hump-shouldered person,” while a book on children’s games from the same era describes it as a game involving a fall at the end (à la “Ring Around the Rosie”). A common misconception is that the nursery "Ring Around the Rosie" has to do with the black plague of the 14th century. I don't think so. The earliest recorded version of the words in print contained the ominous footnote: “This may serve as a warning to the Proud and Ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last”.Mary, Mary Quite Contrary may be about Bloody Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and concerns the torture and murder of Protestants. That’s when the earliest nursery rhymes seem to date from, although the ‘golden age’ came later, in the 18th Century, when the canon of classics that we still hear today emerged and flourished. One of the most gothic songs ever. Ring around the rosie A pocketful of posiesAshes, ashesWe all fall down.

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