Actual Dark Messages Behind Nursery Rhymes
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- Everyone can remember at least one nursery rhyme from their childhood, whether its Ring Around the Rosie, or Rock-a-bye Baby, we've all heard them before, but did you know they have much darker origins than you ever imagined! Check out today's new video where we ruin nursery rhymes for you!
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What did we learn today:
England's history is very dark
Why are we even surprised, Harry Potter literally exists
@Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon ,The One I Love idk. Might be because Harry's guardians mistreated him???
i live in the uk, this is just the beginning
Hey don’t judge us
@@helenw7054 im not judging yall I just noticed almost all of the stories originated from England
Alternate title: ruining your childhood in 10 minutes and 54 seconds
lol
True
Yep.
Pretty much
Lol
Fun fact: the nursery rhyme "do you know the muffin man" is actually a warning about a kidnapper that uses muffins to lure kids in drury lane.
That’s true
𝙸𝚔𝚛
Wait wat
"Do u know the muffin man the muffin man the muffin man do you know the muffin man who live is Drury lane"
Yeah he kidnapped kids and the last thing they ever ate was muffins and he was the first serial killer☹️
0:01 Intro
0:42 Ring Around the Rosie
1:47 London Bridge is falling down
3:23 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
4:32 Three Blind Mice
5:34 Old Mother Hubbard
6:41 Goosey Goosey Gander. (Goosey Gander)
7:36 Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pie (Georgie Porgie)
8:28 Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill (Jack and Jill)
9:09 Rock-A-Bye Baby, in the Treetop
10:02 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
10:36 Outro
10:54 End
Honorable mention:
Do You Know the Muffin Man? (Frederic Thomas Linwood)
-DU
@@lykos.. yeah ikr
He was a serial killer.
@@e_gg69 wake me up
You forgot Henry’s rage
6:41 Goosey Goosey Gander is the nursery rhyme and is same timestamp as Henry's rage, this is an alt account.
"London bridge is falling down"
Even without any dark history this isn't what I would have liked to tell the children.
Yeah
Yep
When I learn this…I’m crazy
Its fun tho-
Yes I agree. When I was little, I used to sing the rhyme "London bridge is falling down" and I never wished to visit London.
Then: poems about the plague, monarchs and human sacrifices
Now: baby shark
yes the sad story about fishes being chased by angry family of sharks, quite deppressing.
@@jjam1025 And where their scared of fish there scared of humans hunting them by hiding behind rocks but only some sharks do that I think but mehh
One of the most viewed videos-
@@user-xw1tb7hw4o yes it is
no not now that was 2018 its hardly ever referenced now
Thank goodness that 'Twinkle Twinkle little star ' has no dark message. It is my favorite nursery rhyme.
it probably does
WHAT IF IT DOES?
It's my favorite 😍, too ❤️!
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is the exact same tune as "Baa Baa Black Sheep" which in turn is the same tune as "The Alphabet Song".
@@SWLinPHX which one came first?
Does anyone remember playing "The Farmer In The Dell" in nursery school. Children all in a ring until one by one they are eliminated until "the cheese stands alone". It was to teach kids how it feels to be ostracized by others with everyone staring at you being the one left cast out. It was a good lesson but felt bad if you were the cheese at the end.
I never understood why the cheese had to stay alone when I said it out loud, but then again I didn't question it since other Nursery Rhymes didn't make sense either. Like Mary Had a Little Lamb, Ba Ba Black Sheep, and Jack Be Nimble.
Honestly you could tell some of these had a dark history by literally just reading the lyrics
Now thats forshadowing. Real talk homie
Literally? As opposed to figuratively?
Yup and reminds me of those Disney stories which makes tragic and sad stories all happy and fantasy like...
Yes
Lol why do these even get sung to little kids
Most of what we know as nursery rhymes were never intended for children. They were part of how news was passed between towns during an age when most people were illiterate. The rhymes made the stories easier to remember.
This is certainly interesting
Thank you
Old european folk tales got so dark they were banned by the government.
@@Darealcyclic could you give out a famous example?
@@Darealcyclic or any example?
This is scary yet very educational-and makes me appreciate simple Dark Origin-free nursery rhymes more than ever!
Ever heard the back story of “10 Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed”? I discovered it about 3 years ago and it started my interest in dark nursery rhyme backstories.
What is it?
No more of the husband having affairs because the wife gets mad and kills the mistresses!?........What is wrong with my brain?
what is the story of that one
I only remember 5 monkeys
It’s 5 not ten
Honestly, “ring around a Rosie” was a game I played in my grandma’s front yard when I was young, never expected it to be so *dark.*
Don't worry, it's not dark at all. The plague connection is completely false. “Ring Around the Rosie” did not occur until the publication of Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose or The Old Nursery Rhymes in 1881. For the “plague” explanation of “Ring Around the Rosie” to be true, we have to believe that children were reciting this nursery rhyme continuously for over five centuries, yet not one person in that five hundred year span found it popular enough to merit writing it down.
I wouldn't say I expected a dark story to be behind it, but the ashes, ashes part wouldn't really make sense.
Like, where are the ashes? And why are there ashes?
I remember playing it in pre-K
Then I was playing it one day with my cousins and my dad said not to play that game...
i have learn [ring around a rosie] and [london bringe go's falling down] and......my childhood has been ruined
EDIT;sorry if is bad spelling
oh s**t
That moment when you realise Baby Shark was a song about how one day humans will become slaves of sharks, waiting to be devoured...
Edit: please stop commenting. my inbox has too many emails :( also it’s been 5 months chill
Nah
evolved sharks that can survive on land, walk, talk, and hold stuff
nani
@@rrrandom why do you keep spamming nani 🙄
@@trollrat2828 I know but this person said it in multiple comments...
The muffin man song was actually a dark thing and its based on true story! The muffin man started in 1800s he would hide in dark alleyways and lure kids with muffin!
I agree they have been doing that on shorts
Thats horrifying
ik
@@shahstranusy wdym
Have you heard of the muffin man?
The muffin man, the muffin man?
Have you heard of the muffin man?
(I forgot that part)
Ring Around The Rosie has always creeped me out. I was only a kid but I remember singing the lyrics out loud and it just felt wrong.
There’s one nursery rhyme that smacks you in the face with gore
“Lizzy Borden took an axe,
Gave her mother 40 wacks
When she saw what she had done
Gave her father 41”
Bruh
Bruuuh
Oh my- That's scary
I- that's creepy af
This is the most straightforward
Us when a 6 year olds: funny happy and friendly nursery rhymes. Us now: where has my childhood gone
It's dead
Almost time to start our 2nd childhood!
Me a 9yr old : Oh my, Oh my! I dont wanna grow up!
True
You’re childhood…is gone
When I was a young child, I used to love all these nursery rhymes. Now I’m older and I listen to the again and I’m like: I’m never viewing these the same way ever
Divorced, beheaded, died , divorced, beheaded, survived.
3:23 I’ve been taught about this in History classes. I remember some of it:
The “How does your garden grow?” is a tease because Mary couldn’t give birth no matter how many attempts she made.
“And pretty maids all in a row” refers to people thinking that Mary’s husband was cheating on her with maids
The history of it is dark but it's pretty cool that you shared it
I thought the 'maids in a row' was the people Mary k1ll£d when she was a queen.... Wait, are we talking about the same Mary?
Giggity
I thought you were talking about the Undertale Secret Garden song lol-
My history Teacher told us about ring around the rosie and jack and jill
Ring-a-ring-a-roses lyrics are actually:
*Ring-a-ring-a-rosies*
*A pocket full of posies*
*A tissue, a tissue*
*We all fall down*
Instead of ashes, ashes, we all fall down its tissues. As people used to cough up mucus and blood into their tissues when they were close to death.
Although I guess ashes works as well.
How depressing...
Growing up, it was always ‘a-tissue’ . I don’t think ashes works.
In another story it was "achoo achoo we all fall down"
A different disease where there was sneezing.
The truth is, these thing kept being altered to suit whatever lore people want
@@theywalkinguptoyouand4060 Yeah I think there’s several versions of this one. A tissue is the original but other words like ashes or a-choo can work.
@@clipscompilations4442 Yeah I’ve heard a couple of versions but a-tissue always fits the rhythm best and makes the most sense
"Old mother Hubbard went to the cubboard to fetch Rover a Bone.....and when Granny bentover....Rover tookover and Rover had a 'bone' of his own! Ooooo!" --Andrew Dice Clay
Dope
Love this channel. Ya learn soo much
When you realize they never mentioned that Humpty Dumpty was an egg-
They made it it would be less disturbing (a theory)
I was talking about this in school with some others
Uh oh stinky
The real Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon used by the Royalist forces during the English Civil War of 1642 to 1651.
Are you talking about Alice in wonderland where Alice realizes that the egg changed jnti Humpty Dumpty??
My father told me that the jack and Jill rhyme was talking about jacking breaking his head when he fell down and Jill followed and then they died-
Lol same did my father!!! 😂😂😂
Jack broke his crown and it's a bone in your skull if you don't have you will die. That's how he died
Jack and Jill went down the hill to fetch a bucket of daughters , but when they came back the police found out and was sentenced to be slaughtered. They went court the judges found some evidence of torcher , sweat poured down on Jill's new gown and confessed her naughty doings then frowned. they couldn't escape their miserable deaths , the police came and then chopped their heads...
Jack and Jill went up the hill to smoke some 🍃🍃 Jack got high and grabbed her thigh and said you know u wanna. Jill said yes, lifted her dress and then they had some fun. Silly Jill forgot their pill and now they have a son
@@maiarobinson8115 ☠️☠️
Woah I didn't even know that these nursery rhymes were dark. Thanks for the update ❤
The "tiptoe, through the tulips..." Nursery rhyme always sends a shiver down my spine.
that's a really scary song
Brings back memories, bad memories.😥
@@scp-999ticklemnstr8 hello there
@@AerisSkyla Sup...
lol! That's not a nursery rhyme! XD 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' is a song written by Al Dubin and Joe Burke!
You guys know that family finger song? "Mommy finger,mommy finger where are you?"
What if they meant that the family died and the person is hallucinating their family on their fingers.
...
Bruhhhhhh. You got a point though
You creep me out
;-;
😔
Not my six obsession making me excited in every nursery rhyme that mentioned one of the characters or historical figures I know-
london bridge is falling down queen elizabeth….
"king Olaf"
My 6 year old little sister: *ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT OLAF BEING A KING-*
Read your name
@@anonymous.6231 *what's wrong with my name?*
Im just remember olaf from spongebob 😂😂
@@Hi-lq8kn Hi
@@shadowslayer9184 hi
Next their gonna tell us "Mary had a little lamb" is actually about a girl with a disease that makes you laugh and when she went to school she gave the disease to her friends
Mary had a little lamb, Sh-Sh Bam! No more lamb! Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was red as blood! At school everyone sang that
Well thast s great.......
From personal interpretations, Mary might refer to the virgin Mary as Jesus is often referred to as God's lamb.
I don't know if Rome could be classified as a school but it's a bit of a stretch.
That sounds like a prediction of covid-19
@@AbsolutelyAri1 i-
Oh. I still remember doing the ring around the Rosie's thing with my friends as a small kid
I knew the Ring around the Rosie one about the Bubonic Plague, or "Black Death" as it is sometimes reffered, due to roses with rings on it to block the putrid smell of rotting corpses. My 8th grade World History teacher told us.
My 6th grade language arts teacher told us
I already knew though
0:20 Mother and her daughter just singing nursery rhymes.
Dad: shows them the infographics show's intro
*screaming*
*more screaming*
even more screaming
More and more screaming
More and more even more scremaing
@@c0szm038 this made me think of twices song more and more
Seriously. When covid ends, he's gonna be remembered by another nursery rhyme like ring-a-ring-a-rosie. In the future those who were in lockdown in covid are gonna hate it when the next generation learns it....
so... the miss Rona song???
Lol let's make a covid rhyme to be sung by future generations
@i ate my username too long and not very catchy
Wait I can prob make this better,
Miss Rhona came to town grandma is on the couch mommy and daddy are out of town since miss Rhona came to town so I stayed away away away
Miss Rhona came to us grandma's sleeping on the couch I stayed away away away
Miss Rhona left town I went outside to see a note in my fronyard hooray hooray hooray
I read the note saying "Stay away away away!" Miss Rhona has brought us down away away away!
There was a 1st one earlier
I already know the ring around the Rosie by the way I love your videos!😇😊
the shade that is thrown every time Henry’s SIX wives is mentioned is so funny
honestly, how can he say those nursery rhymes so casually, without even singing it? impressive.
@Esmeralda Ake oh my god 💀
Well it's not his voice he uses text to speech software
@@onitunes7026 that's some really expressive software
I was literally signing & paused soon as he told the origin of them like😯
@@Corsoux_Dev fr
Imagine people singing the original versions to your kids.
SENSEI, what are you singing for my daughter!?
some dude probably did
I WILL
the knights sword in the animation for "the three blind mice" is literally the master sword but without the Tri force symbol
Did you know?: that the do you know the muffin man song was based on a dark story, of a serial killer named fredrick thomas Linwood, he would lure in kids in drury lane with muffins and kidnap them. He was the first documented serial killer in all. The song was made to spread awareness about him.
Scary song backstories: *exists*
The infographics show: "I'll take your whole stock"
I was expecting “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man was snoring,” in here. It’s literally about a man who looses his life due to him apparently cracking his head open.
Oww that made my head hurt
True, I thought it would be on there too.
When ever my 1st teacher played an animated video with that song Everyone smiled at eachother when he cracked his head lol
It’s raining It’s pouring the old man is snoring he hit his head on his bed and didn’t wake up in the morning.
I used to change the lyrics to that one so the old man loses an arm because my grandpa is an amputee
i remember being younger and hearing about the london bridge story my uncle told me and my brother about it he said people kidnapped kids sometimes adults to and cut their heads off and put those dead bodies in some kind of bridge and me and my brother not believing it
Ring around the roses sounds very grim if you sing it in a room that has a very good echo. Just try it. Slowly and if you hear the child's voice singing it, it sends cold shivers down your spine. In my language it goes "ringe, ringe raja". But the melody is the same.
Soo... Whenever we sing ring around the rosie when we say "we all fall down" does that mean we're all gonna die ?
Affirmative 👍🏼
Affirmative 👍🏼
*nervous sweating*
Affirmative👍🏽
We will turn to ashes
Me never joined In ring around a Rosies bc I thought It was suspicious
Me now:I WAS RIGHT
Same I did like the feeling of holding hands in a circle. It was suspicious
I refused to say the ashes part because it scared me
How did you noy realize london bridge falling down?
YOU HAVE A FNAF 2 PHOTO
@@Shockxed I don’t know I mean almost all nursery rhymes are suspicious
Exactly
We used to sing '' Ringa Ringa Roses ,
Packet full of roses ,
Hasha Busha ,
All fall down ''
😂😂🤣🤣
I'm surprised humpty Dumpty wasn't here
"Here's a candle to light you to bed,
And here's a chopper to chop if your head.
Chip, chop, chip, chop
The last man is dead"
- Oranges and Lemons
Nice try with that username, didn't trick me.
Wtf
@@user-ek6oz8om4x wdym?
@@user-ek6oz8om4x wdym???? What does names have to do with this??
@@KingPuffy56 oh yea before her current name Luminu, I forgot her previous username, but her previous username said something with 69 years ago as if her comment was 69 years ago
My mom already told me everything when i was 7yrs old now im 13 im not suprised at all bc my mom loves history and she tells me everything
420
Honestly same! My mom’s a history teacher at my local middle school.
The London Bridge one gives me the chills every time
That guy knew how to make a trailer for a game, that's for sure
@@justarandomuser5911 qq
Same for me, but with my big brother
I was traumatized by my 4th grade creative writing teacher because she told the whole grade what some nursery rhymes ment including ring around the rosy and now when i see kids singing it i tell then to stop
For the Ring Around the Rosie one, the posie's also represent the posie's that were put in the dead bodies pockets when they were buried (some were buried)
Talking about London bridge and picturing tower bridge is way too common in America.
maybe we should begin to talk about the white house and show a picture of the pentagon
I commented about this before I saw your comment. I had always assumed tower bridge was London bridge until I actually visited. Tower bridge is the most famous and unique bridge in London which is where I think the confusion comes from. It doesn't help that London bridge is so non-descript with the sign depicting its name the only unique feature.
when I visited London I was incredibly underwhelmed by the London Bridge, then I saw the Tower Bridge. 0-0
@millie foryś "Screams in North American USA"
I was literally cringing so hard
The Jack and Jill rhyme is wrong, I was actually told ‘Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water, I don’t know what they did up there but now they have a daughter’
Little boy blue
Come , ,blow on your horn
The sheep are in the meadow
The cows , in the corn
Where is the boy who looks
after the sheep ?
He up in the haystack
Humpin' Bo- Peep .
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB
Mary had a little sheep
And with her sheep she did sleep.
The sheep grew up to be a ram
And Mary had a little lamb
I cannot unseen this
Jack and Jill went up the hill to smoke some m----, Jill went down and did not frown and now they have a daughter (that’s what we sang in elementary school lol)
Jack and Jill went up the hill so jack could lick her candy, but jack got a shock and a mouthful of c_ck cause Jill's real name was randy
if i knew nursery rhymes as a small child i would probably be obsessed with them, for some reason when i was about 6 i loved scary things and i used to listen to creepypasta a lot and watch people play horror games on youtube like fnaf
Hi I love your vids!
Y’all did the muffin man right, it was made to stop kids from being Murdered by the muffin man
"Well she's married to the The Muffin Man"
The one from Drury Lane?!
Ye
Badboyhalo????
wait did hear a song like that oh yes it was bakers man bake me a cake as fast you can
Wow, does anyone else remember playing ring around the Rosie?
I used to sing humpy dumpy now he's killing my happiness when I realise he was a person
Nah I actually never did
I think I only did once-
Me, I used to play it eith friends and I'm glad I stopped
I do
There is also a song of Mary known by the name of secret garden I believe at least because if you think about it, it starts with the words "oh Mary, contrary, how does your garden grow? Come with me and you'll be the seventh maid in a row" but it is also know as a flowerfell song
I cannot wait to teach my nephew about these nursery rhymes
The infographis show: explaining me about the horrors of Nursery Rhymes
Me: I am gonna regret signing the Nursery Rhymes when I was a kid
That's cool and all but how do you sign a nursery rhyme?
I meant to say singing
All Children stories:
*IM SCARIER THAN YOU THINK*
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Why are you saying thanks for the likes? Is not going to change your life
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Baby Shark: Fish getting chased by a whole family of sharks till the fish die.
i have this game called plague ink and sometimes in the background it sings ring around the rosy in a creepy way
To add on to this: Yankee Doodle is actually about tar and feathering someone.
What does feathering mean?
Putting feathers on someone after the tar-
@@kimm3306 my god…
i dont understand any of these
@@den.nathalie5399 tar and feathers was a torture method by americans to the british because of the dumb taxes or something
Fun Fact:
That’s not London Bridge, that’s Tower Bridge..
@KombatBard no it isn’t it’s another bridge in London
I am so surprised about this! THANKS FOR TELLING ME ❤😊
I grew up on military bases when my teachers taught us these songs she also told us the dark truth to the song lol tbh made most of us love em even more.
The lyrics of nursery rhymes always creeped me out as a kid so I never wanted to sing them, seems like I was right lol
same
Actually...
Dark as they may be, there is always a lesson to be learned in these old nursery rhymes. That was their exact purpose. Nowadays, we shield our kids from any of the harsh realities of life. They grow up not understanding those harsh realities until they are young adults who were overly sheltered by their parents and teachers and are now incapable of handling them, and so we end up with what we have now: A bunch of weak people who get "triggered" and need to retreat to their "safe spaces" and think that speech and violence are somehow the same thing. We were a lot tougher and better off as a species when these nursery rhymes were still commonplace. They were an intentionally subtle and delicate Darwinian way of making sure the new generation was fit enough to survive for future generations at the top of the food chain where we evolutionarily belong and fought very hard against great odds for many millennia to achieve.
My fear was humpy dumpty
@@motivationgobye59 bro, its an egg.
@@chillycoldchomper9389 it's a living egg
I always told my family that ring around the roses was dark, this is how I saw it,
ring around the rosey = they’re dancing around roseys dead body,
Pockets full of posey = they have pockets full of their dead friend poseys body parts
Ashes ashes = fire burning down stuff or the ashes of someone dead
We all fall down = they all fall down and die
The ashes ashes one I didn't expect that but yeah
It's not ashes.. It's achoo! Ring around the posie is about the bubonic plague...... Symptoms. Red rings on skin..... Sneezing...... And the pocket full of posies was the belief that sweet smells and fragrances could ward off the evil..... And yes... They did fall down dead....... It is not ashes... It is achoo! Sneezing being a main symptom of the plague.
In some countries, it’s “ashes, ashes”
@@flynn4838 It's depending on the country, some use 'atissue atissue' (mine uses that one), some use "ashes ashes" and other use "achoo achoo!"
YEESH dis is so true
1:56: The bridge shown as actually called Tower Bridge and was built much later than London Bridge, opening in 1894 (though built in a gothic revival style to look much older)
I think london bridge reffers to operation london bridge, which basically means “ the queen (or king) has died”
Which is actually going on rn
Well that settles it, I'm never singing a nursery rhyme to MY child.
Bold of you to assume that you’d get married and have a child
@@Firetech2004 Who knows? It could happen! Don't lower your hopes too soon!
@@Firetech2004 just be quiet- let them be, why does their thought bother u sm, just ignore if u don't like their comment
@@aili_not_ally this is what I like to think to myself
But I know it’ll never happen cuz I’ve got rejected by every crush I’ve ever had
Just a fun fact: Pinnochio (idk how to spell it) got hung in the original story he appeared in, he didn't die, because he was made of wood...so he just...hanged there
(Edit) I couldve told much worse here, yall are lucky
Oh gosh..
Wut?
Ayo...
There is alot to do with ol nokio that lil pervert the wooden boy who wasnt spoze to lie and if he did his nose would grow the man wanted a perfect boy and then they corrupted pinny o .....
Yeah, Grimm Brothers One Right?
I love how in the first few seconds the guy scratches his face in his hand is bigger than his face 😂😂😂
I search this kind of video after hearing the song "it's raining it's pouring" this morning while playing with my niece i'm so bothered by the lyrics in the last part where it says the old man went to bed and bumped his head and couldnt wake up in the morning, i was like what? he died?
I never realized how dark my childhood was.. wow..
Here comrade here’s a pill to warn off the bots 💊
More like cyanide pills
I mean hey bots can't bother you if you're dead amirite?
@@bukitcengkeh1 lol
@@bukitcengkeh1 lel
@@bukitcengkeh1 lol
@@bukitcengkeh1 lel
When I heard it's raining it's pouring I was like how did the old man not wake up
My childhood is officially ruined
Nursery rhymes are said, verses in my head
Into my childhood they're spoon fed
Hidden violence revealed, darkness that seems real
Look at the pages that cause all this evil
Yhea this the nursery rap (yhea yhea)
@@seeableninja4199 More like nu-metal
@@seeableninja4199 lol (yhea yhea)
@@iiCounted2134 i don't know why I did the dababy
@@ViVaLaRan i haven't heard a lot of metal songs so it'll be hard for me
this gives me disney x grimm brothers vibes like how nemo was never real and marlin was actually sick and swam around looking for his son ... o.o
I've never heard this theory I'm finna look it up
Dory is an enabler.
@@RealBradMiller really how so i ended up forgetting to look it up
That's actually interesting
I was taught a version of “Mary, Mary, quite contrary”, that to my knowledge, nobody has ever heard or heard of, aside from myself and my siblings. It has a serious Edward Gorey vibe to it.
Nursery rhymes have dark meanings
Me:Mickey on a railway picking up stones💀💀💀💀
Childhood wasn't ruined when every kid knew. At least in my school an eon ago.
So I was surprised when I found out that most people didn't know about this. I'm sure in some parts world today, kids are singing their own nursery rhyimes with equaly dark origins.
Yep.
Yep.
I am 20 and I got to know about their true meanings today. I am shook 😳
@@zk-dh4zh I’m younger, a teenager but I knew about it in elementary school💀
I am 17, same story. Actually we made up worse versions ourselves
i learnt that the mary mary quiete contrary one is about her having multiple miscarriages & the how does ur garden grow refers to her burying their bodies in the garden
It's depressing.
Did u know that the muffin man nursery rhyme also has a dark back story
The song was about the 1st documented killer
This part of the song 🎵 do u know the muffin on dary lane🎵 that how's he lures kids he will lures kids to the dary lane/ally way with muffins
Ok the bit where it says i threw him down the stars caght me out
When i was a kid, i’d play a game called “georgie porgie” which i got from the nursery rhyme. The game went where one of us would jog and repeatedly say “Georgie Porgie” until they caught someone and the kid who was Georgie Porgie would “steal” the kid they caught, which we didn’t know was represented later as killing.
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I just realize how much students have to learn history in the uk
A lot of us already knew this, as it was taught in english lit
Ring a ring of roses, a pocket full of posies. Atishoo atishoo, we all fall down.
Ashes in the water, ashes in the sea we all jump up with a one, two, three.
We sang atishoo as though we were sneezing and knew it meant being ill and dying but then your soul lives on - we all jump up with a one, two, three.
I think people mixed up where in the song 'ashes' is. It doesn't follow for the second part of the song (I believe added later) if the first part is ashes too! Also tissues were not used yet, and therefore the word tissue wasn't in existence when the rhyme was made. Posies had been used for years even before the plague to help mask the smell of the air in unsanitary towns and they often caused a sneeze. They were also used as such even into the victorian period.
I believe over the years the words changed to reflect different cultures, even down to some singing 'sweet bread, rye bread' and other variations - even as early as late 1800's.
Your explanation for London Bridge is incorrect. There are no bodies in the foundations but there was a time when people were bricked in as you suggest.
Immurement was a form of punishment also throughout human history as a form of sacrifice but was not used during the building of London Bridge and has no baring on the nursery rhyme.
what about "its raining its pouring the old man is snoring, he hit his head, and bumped his head, and never woke up in the morning"
6:43 even without dark history, i still wouldn’t want to tell that rhyme to small children
“These nursery rhymes are more than child’s play”
Me: wait child’s play is a horror movie lol
I was surprised about the cradle and all one cuz my grandma and my mom used to sing that to me 😃
When he was doing rock-a-bye baby in the tree top, when the guy kidnapped the baby it reminded me of repunzle💀
We're talking about nursery rhymes, but some fairy tales (such as the original Grimm Brothers ones, for example), are pretty dark and brutal, too.
I loved those stories as a little kid, the events are out in the open rather than being shrouded by delusions of being appropriate for children