Ring Around the Rosie

Album: Children's Songs (1881)
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  • Ring around the rosie
    Pocket full of posies
    Ashes ashes
    We all fall down
    The cows are in the meadow
    Eating buttercups
    Thunder lightning
    We all jump up

    Alternate Version:
    Ring around the rosies
    Pocket full of posies
    Ashes ashes
    We all fall down
    The goats are in the meadow
    Eating buttercups
    Ashes ashes
    We all jump up

    Expanded version:
    Ring around the rosie
    A pocket full of posies
    Ashes ashes
    We all fall down

    Skip around the rosie
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  • Rwuitlhe from Rainbow LandI knew it had a deeper meaning...
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