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Ring around the roses

Posted by Richard on August 10, 2003

I believe it is "atishoo, atishoo
we all fall down"
because as I understand it there was sneezing associated with the plague which was the last cycle before death, though what one would be doing dancing at this point is a little bewildering; poetic licence I suppose

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