![]() For example, Hans Thoma's Kinderreigen (children dancing in a ring) of 1872 takes place in an Alpine meadow, while his later version of the game has the children dancing round a tree. Paintings Įvidence of similar children's round-dances appears in continental paintings. Other European singing games with a strong resemblance include " Roze, roze, meie" ("Rose, rose, May") from The Netherlands with a similar tune to "Ring a ring o' roses" and " Gira, gira rosa" ("Circle, circle, rose"), recorded in Venice in 1874, in which girls danced around the girl in the middle who skipped and curtsied as demanded by the verses and at the end kissed the one she liked best, so choosing her for the middle. Swiss versions have the children dancing round a rosebush. – in translation: "A ring, a ring o' roses,/ Lovely apricots,/ Violets blue, forget-me-nots,/ Sit down, children all!" The slowest child to do so is faced with a penalty or becomes the "rosie" (literally: rose tree, from the French rosier) and takes their place in the center of the ring. Many versions of the game have a group of children form a ring, dance in a circle around a person, and stoop or curtsy with the final line. It is unknown what the earliest wording of the rhyme was or when it began. Leslie Brooke's Ring O' Roses (1922) shows nursery rhyme characters performing the game ![]() ![]() The lyrics vary, but a modern interpretation based on modern lyrics that related the words to the plague in England became widespread post- WWII, even though it appears to be a false folk etymology. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925. Descriptions first emerge in the mid-19th century, but are reported as dating from decades before, and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. " Ring a Ring o' Roses", " Ring a Ring o' Rosie", or (in the United States) " Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game. ![]()
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