and ring a ring a posey is about the black death, the last line should be "we all fall down, dead"!
~M

>>
>>You mean you've never heard the nursery rhyme:
>>
>>Goosey-gooosey gander
>>Where shall I wander?
>>Upstairs and downstairs
>>In my lady's chamber.
>>There I met an old man
>>who wouldn't say his prayers
>>so I took him by the left leg
>>and threw him down the stairs.
>>
>>Now THERE'S a way of expressing your Christian piety!
>
>It never cease to amaze me what terrible things we will quote to our children. These kind of rhymes is probably why I am so strange.