Ring a Ring o’ Roses

Ring a Ring o’ Roses
a traditional children’s song and game in which the players join hands and dance in a circle singing, then pretend to sneeze, and fall down on the last line. The words are:
Ring a ring o’ roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.

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