What are we really singing about? - Comments

I remember learning this in fifth grade music class.
My teacher was like, "you know all the nursery rhymes generally have a really dark meaning right?"
So she told us. We were learning about meanings of lyrics. xD

Jack and Jill? Ya, bout a drunk!
Jack was the town drunk and idiot and was beheaded, hense, Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill got sentenced after trying to protect him, and Jill came tumbling after! My fourth grade teacher told us this. I hate that ass :P

Xoxo,fuck sencrly[2 hard 2 spell]

I've heard of that too, but never really thought it was all that creepy.
When you're being dragged around in and endless game of Ring Around the Rosie by twenty-something tireless 4 year olds, the last thing you're thinking is, "hey, this song is about the Black Death!"
XD
Cool article.

I learned that when I wrote my term paper on the Black Plague last year. It freaked me out so badly!!

I've heard of this before. Ever since I was a kid and found out I started only singing it when I wanted to creep myself out, or creep out others. x]

This article is very well written, and a topic I liked reading on. [:
And very good job on giving all the versions.

very smart. I swear I've heard this somewhere before but I had forgotten, and this article reminded me. Thanks! It does make a lot of sense.

xD I've never heard the modern day version. People here generally sing the original one. Idk why.

I've always thought that it's really creepy, 'cos my dad told me what it was actually about when I was really little, and then when I went to school it was full of kids singing about death. =/

VERY good.
But you could have added that it was originally from Asia and traveling merchants heading to Europe brought it there.

This was VERY good!

Hey It's the Black Plague!

Gosh I feel bad for everyone that died to it
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All i saw was the first line and i knew it.
Im going to go read it now
=D

Yeah I remember learning about this, kind of funny really. Oi fill your pockets with posies to shove out the smell...lol Nice article. I always used to do the dance in a circle thing with my friends when I was little.

Yes, I've heard that. Other than the fact that not all of your statistics were true, this article was great and interesting.

creeeepy! lol i think ive heard that somewhere! anyhoo its an odd rhyme for children to sing...

creepy but very interesting

lovely.

I think it was just Europe. That's what my college professor is teaching me.

But I definitely like the article. It caught my eye.

It is morbid isn't it. But then again, anything can be sick and twisted. That one I agree was already morbid, but you CAN make anything evil.

I was told in school that 1/3 of Europe's population was wiped out.

I've never heard this 60% of the WORLD statistic.

My grandpa told me what that rhyme was about when I was around 7.

The Plague wasn't spread through being bitten by rodents, however, it was spread by being bitten by an infected flea, that was on rodents. But other than that, I really liked this article.