Fact or Fiction?

     Everyone is familiar with the nursery rhyme ''Ring Around the Rosie.'' We've all held hands, turned in a circle and sang the lyrics and at the end fell down. Some say the nursery rhyme is an interpretation of the Black Plague that took place in 1347-1353. Others, like myself, believe that it was just a happy nursery rhyme and centuries later someone came up with and explanation and the world just went with it.
   The lyrics of Ring Around the Rosie was broken down by parts explaining the order of events when a person was infected with the plague. For example, ''ring around the Rosie'' refers to the round, red rash that is the first symptom of the disease. ''Pocket full of posies'' , posies were a flower people thought would immune them from the plague. ''Ashes, ashes'' was the sound the sick people would make when they would sneeze.''We all fall down'' referred to people simply dying from the plague.
     The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosie did not occur to until a woman named Kate Greenaway came out with a book name Mother Goose