Sunday, November 28, 2010
Winter...
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has arrived in the UK from Siberia, or Norway, or the arctic. Worried newscasters and trembling weather people declare hourly that we're all doomed unless temperatures begin to rise. Snow covers Scotland, Newcastle and the eastern counties. Many hands thrown up in despair snapped off so vicious is the cold. A variation of boules involving snapped hands became the main sport in some areas for a short while. Unimaginatively called, 'Hands' it was the snatching dogs that stopped the whole thing going global.
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Now you've got me singing that children's song, 'head and fingers, knees and toes...knees and toes.'
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Not sure what song you mean, however, I'm assuming as it's a children's song that said fingers and toes are about to be chopped off. Children's songs can be quite cruel and violent I find.
'Ring a ring a roses,' a song about bubonic plague in London has been popular for generations in the UK. The chorus goes, "atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down." Atishoo being the sound a sneeze makes. The ring of roses is the skin blemish that indicates infection and of course 'falling down' is what a person does when they're dead, which was pretty much the expectation back then if one caught bubonic plague
Charming.
I know, those nursery rhymes were not as nice as we think, haha. Look at rock a bye baby! OMG.
But [not sure] the head and fingers song teaches children about the body. Not that children need that song today, they seem to know EVERYTHING.
ehh, I'm betting that kids made up ring around a rosie. children weren't a market in those days. People told them horror stories to keep 'em in line, but other than that? No money in it. Anyway, if it was written by an adult it'd feel scary or have a lesson somewhere. Instead, it's quite matter of fact. This is the way it works, kiddies... Sounds to me like kids just acting out what they see. Sort of like cops and robbers in the projects.
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