I’ve polled a bunch of my friends and it seems to me as though most of you don’t know the second verse of Ring Around The Rosie. Hat tip for today’s post goes to Swansea who taught this to me when I attended her playgroup with Malone. Lola and I currently attend her playgroup at the Northampton Parent’s Center. The NPC is a sanity saver, especially in the winter months (more on that another day).
Malone and I have been singing the second verse of Ring Around The Rosie for over five years. But before that, I didn’t know it existed. As a child, I sang Ring Around The Rosie like this.
Ring around the Rosie
A pocket full of posies.
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down!
And that was the end of it. We all fell down and that was in the end of it.
The Second Verse Of Ring Around The Rosie!
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The cows are in the meadow,
eating buttercups!
Thunder (slap the floor), lightening (clap), we all stand up!
Pretty cute right?
I don’t know if it is a regional thing or not. A lot of parents in my area know the second verse of Ring Around The Rosie because they attend(ed) Swansea’s playgroup. Out of everyone I spoke to via Facebook, the only person that knew it! Christie from Letters From The Nest told me she grew up singing it!
I am so happy to be passing this random information about the second verse of Ring Around The Rosie to you today! Now you can sing it properly too!
Poll time! Did you know the second verse?
I know the second verse! But only since my job leading playgroups. Before that, despite years of working with children, I had never heard it.
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I consider myself fairly well versed in matters of literature and antiquity but I have NEVER heard that verse! Crazy face! Thanks for sharing though, I learned something today, haha!
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I had no idea there was a 2nd verse, though I wonder about its origins since the 1st verse is about the plague and the 2nd verse seems unrelated. Though it is a fun way to get back up after falling down!
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I vaguely remember something about cows and buttercups when I read it, otherwise I completely forgot about the second verse of this song. Makes sense, though. We have to get up somehow!
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Never heard it before! Interesting!!
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I recently learned a different second verse! On hands and knees after falling down, you rhythmically pat the ground and sing
Knocking at the windows
Knocking at the doors
We all stand up as I count to 4!
1! 2! 3! 4! (Stand up)
I grew up with that song and the second verse being
cows are in the meadow,
Fish’s in the sea,
We all jump up with a one, two, three.
My daughter has a cd that uses that second verse. Before that I had no idea there was one!
Here is the second verse I was taught as a child.
Cows in the meadow eating Buttercups. Along comes the farmer we all jump up!
I grew up in Birmingham, at Dorrington infant &junior school in the mid 70s, the second verse there was, ashes in the water, ashes in the sea,
we all jump up with a 123. There are lots of versions of this rhyme regional and global but no actual proof that it relates to the bubonic plague.