One of the most famous nursery rhymes songs is “Ring Around the Rosy” that was first written in the year 1881, but this song was already in tune across the continent of Europe in the 1790s. It is a signing game in which numerous children hold hands in a circle singing the whole song until the words stop. The source behind Ring Around the Rosy was written during the medieval times in Europe. There were comparisons between the rhyme’s hidden lyrics and the circumstances surrounding the deadly plague that swept across Europe killing millions of people. People once believed that the “ring-a-round the rosie” referred to a red circular rash which was familiar in some forms of the plague. The sprays would be used on various flowers that people carried to protect themselves from the deadly disease. The “ashes” represented falling-down was supposed to copy sneezing and eventually dying from the plague. Over the years, this rhyme turned into a fun game for pre-school children to enjoy.
The Muffin Man
One of the most popular nursery rhymes ever made was, “The Muffin Man”. It dated back to England in the early nineteenth-century. The muffin man story was first recorded in the early 1800s. It tells a story of a muffy man of Dury Lane, which was a highly populated area in London.
Since English muffins were popular and affordable for poorer people of the United Kingdom cities in the early nineteenth-century, “The Muffin Man”, as the rhyme reminds, would be a man walking in his long apron. A muffin man’s job was to deliver a fresh supply of muffins, which was on a tray, that was placed above his head or right around his neck selling his goods in the streets for poor people.
By the year 1820, the rhyme of “The Muffin Man” was created. The first known copy to contain the rhyme is currently kept in the Bodleian Library in London.
Jack and Jill
Nursery rhymes songs have many sources. The source of “Jack and Jill” goes back to England in the 18th century England.
The story is told of Jack and Jill who both lived in Kilmersdon, which was a small village in north Somerset. In the late 15th century, they were both a young unmarried couple who would always climb on a nearby hill to have a private relationship from others inside their village. However, Jill became pregnant. Just before the baby was born, Jack was killed by a rock that had fallen from the same hill that they both always climbed. This sad story is mentioned on a series of engraved stones that leads along a path to that same hill.
The rhyme was first documented in 1765 and became a published shortly in the Mother Goose’s song. The rhyme has been modified many times over the years, with added lyrics for fun and games for little children worldwide.