Top Ten Nursery Rhymes With Dark Origins
The Top Ten
1 Ring Around The Rosie
Related to the Black Death.
2 Jack and Jill
3 Three Blind Mice
Like most nursury rhymes, it's about Mary I. 3 Protestant men plotted to kill Mary, and they were burnt.
4 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
I can imagine it probably does, when you think about the lyrics.
That "garden" sounds more like a graveyard to me.
5 Rock-A-Bye Baby
A baby in a cradle in a treetop who falls when the wind blows.
6 London's Bridge
It is about when the Vikings invaded London at destroyed the London bridge
7 Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty is a dumb egg, people used to be called that if they are obese.
In the 15th Century (1400s) "Humpty Dumpty" was a term for someone who is obese.
This nursery rhyme is about a cannon which got destroy in a war
8 Pop Goes the Weasel
9 It's Raining, It's Pouring
The man literally dies.
10 Old Mother Hubbard
The Contenders
11 Little Boy Blue
12 Little Jack Horner
13 Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo
14 Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
15 I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Pie
16 Goosey Goosey Gander
17 This Little Piggy
18 Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
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