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Try looking up the history behind some of the nursery rhymes…far from the tufty club :shock:
Ring o’ring O’roses ( a ring of ring of roses – represent the sores around the mouth)
A pocket full of poses ( to keep the smell away)
Ah tissue, ah tissue (or ah tew, ah tew, the sound of sneezing)
We all fall down (dead)Ashes in the water ( ashes were all around after the Great Fire of London)
Ashes in the sea
Please pick me up
With a 1 , 2 , THREE ( 3 was shouted loudly and we stood up.)The relevance of the ashes were from the cremation and burial of bodies, or so the story goes. Although in reality most were buried and not burnt. The ashes in the water were because they dead were affecting the drinking water causing a different sickness and the king had a huge fresh water fountain built so that people could get clean water to drink from within the city of London.
Also I heard the ashes in the water ashes in the sea represents that the great fire of London 1666 had burned down most of London which was the beginning of the end of the great plague so the pick me up with a 1 , 2 , 3 meant it was safe again.
*TY Google!
The nursery rhyme of Little Bo Peep is thought to have originated in St Leonards on Sea.
The small town now attached to Hastings proper has a small area know as Bo Peep and also boasts of a very old Pub called “The Bo Peep”.
The words of the famous child’s rhymes are thought to represent “Revenue Men” “Smugglers” and the Smuggler’s “Contraband”
Do read the rhyme through once again and substitute
Bo Peep for Revenue Men
Sheep for Smugglers
Tails for the Smugglers ContrabandLittle Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And can’t tell where to find them.
Leave them alone, And they’ll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them”Little Bo peep fell fast asleep
And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
For they were still a-fleeting.Then up she took her little crook,
Determined her to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
For they’d left their tails behind them.It happened one day, as Bo peep did stray
Into a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side,
All hung on a tree to dry.She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye,
And over the hillocks went rambling,
And tried what she could, as a sheperdess should,
To tack each again to its lambkin.
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