Funny how we've taken this simple song and made it a favorite kids' tune to hum, sing, and dance to over the years... and yet, if we took a leap back into the history of time and sang it loud and proud for the people of the Middle Ages, I doubt they would join in with merry glee! "Ring around the Rosie," a description of the symptoms of the Black Plague; "Pocket full of Posies," the least you could do to help with the rotting smell of your skin; "Ashes, Ashes, We all fall down," the inevitable outcome of the disease: death. I can only wonder what catastrophe our generation will encounter that will simply become child's play because reality of context is lost over time...We need a renewed respect for history and our embarrassing ignorance extinguished!
*Click the video link below for the full effect!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8NLuawDxc
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