Singing game
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A singing game is an activity based on a particular verse or rhyme, usually associated with a set of actions and movements. As a collection, they have been studied by folklorists, ethnologists, and ps
Girls playing "London Bridge" in 1898
Children's Dances by Hans Thoma
Ring a Ring o' Roses
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"Ring a Ring o' Roses", also known as "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" or "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song, and playground game. Descriptions first appeared in the mid-19th century, though
Singing game
…may have their origins in circle dances, including "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush". The simplest, and perhaps the best known, circle dance is "Ring a Ring o' Roses". A number of singing games deal with elements of courtship and marriage, like "Skip to My Lou", which remained also an adult courtship song, and "Green…
The cover of L. Leslie Brooke's Ring O' Roses (1922) shows nursery rhyme characters performing the game
American children playing the game, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith in The Little Mother Goose (1912)
Kate Greenaway's illustration from Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes (1881)