And now... It's time for... Did You Know?
Fact 5: Did you know that the song "Rock A-Bye Baby" has a tune that puts you to sleep, but has lyrics that give you nightmares?! I mean really! How you ever looked closely at the words?
Rock a-bye baby, on the tree top
when the wind blows, the cradle will fall.
Who wrote those words?! I have a few choice words for that guy! Like, "what", and "were", and "you", and "thinking". The words are enough to make you sick! How can he sing that song without being disgusted!
What's that? You already knew that? Well then, smarty, Did you know that the song "Ring Around the Rosie" is also a disgusting song? Look closely at the lyrics.
Ring around rosie, pockets full of posies
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down! (Annoying Laughter)
This actually is a song of ridicule. Ridicule of the bubonic plague (AKA The Black Death). You heard me right, the Black Death. All it takes is one person to catch it, then one sneeze in the wrong direction... Boom! It spreads like fire. This caused dark rings on the victims face, explaining the first part of the first verse. The superstitious peasants filled their pockets with posies (or flowers) to ward of the disease, explaining the second part of the first verse. The bodies were then burned to prevent the spreading of the disease, causing ashes, and explaining the first part of the second verse. The plague struck people so fast that they could be sneezing in the morning and dead by evening. Some fell down when their sudden death struck, explaining the second part of the second verse.
From now on, whenever you sing "Rock A-Bye Baby" or "Ring Around the Rosie", you know the ugly truth.
Well, you know it now! And don't you forget it!
3 comments:
Wow, I had no idea about the Rosies song. I never liked it anyway, but holy shumolies, what an origin. That is an amazing piece of information. I also didn't know the Black Death was the Bubonic Plague and I didn't know people dropped dead so fast from it.
Where do you find this stuff?
You must be home-schooled.
I never learned this stuff in public school. I'm jealous.
Well, actually, I learned that from a book. You can look at my profile. It has my list of favortite books. This inforamtion came from one of those.
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