9 Jolly Nursery Rhymes With Deeply Disturbing Meanings 

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Jack and Jill Went up the Hill To have a bit of fun Silly Jill Forgot her pill And now you got a son

Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill Jacks got a Gun Two in the head Now he's dead And Jills got a son

Two in the head surely it only takes one lol

MrShannonite That's Funny

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Also silver bells and cockle shells likely refer to types of actual flowers that were popular adornments for graves. It likely had more to do with her death count and less to deal with torture.

Nate Buell same, that's the one I know

I've always heard it's referring to the plague. But different aspects to different words. Ashes referring to cremation or them using ashes as a way they thought would cure the sores. The posies being used to cover up the bad odors from the dead and dying. Everything else is pretty much the same. The wording, I think, is just different from the U.K. and United States.

Collin Campbell "Ring around the rosie a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down." that's the one I heard- :I and I used to think it was about a bunch of people who went to hell. but y'know, whatever...

Meh sorry but that's not as great as the others. Nvm you copied a comment that's 1 year later. Unoriginal

oh god.

nice

Jack and Jill Went up the Hill to fetch The pile of water Jack pulled down His trousers and Soon that had a Daughter

Lavender Alexandra 1D Well sorry, my friend told me it, I didn’t see a comment. Also, get tf off of my comment if it wasn’t as good as the others like wtf

Humpty dumpty sat on a wall Humpty dumpty had a great fall Someone say's humpty dumpty is a cannon place on a wall when it had a great fall no one can't fix it's again. But humpty dumpty represent the ROMAN EMPIRE when the roman empire fell no one can fix it's again.

Helo No one likes you No one thinks your smart No one wants to be your freind Guess what My name is.... No one

Woah

Nice!

*YOU ARE CORECCTO*

SimonB198207 lol

SimonB198207 That made no sense. Maybe a girl fell from the sky in the pail.

lol....

😂😂

SimonB198207 Oh my....

Well that explains why there's only like 300 000 of you lot, you keep drowning the fekkin kids!

Huh, that stupid humanity. If we ever start hurting like hell or get in a comma, those cry-babies would put us to sleep cus its the most flipping "human" thing to do... Sh*t.

ELbabotas Shinigami it's an old folktale. the song is about how the woman has absolutely no other choice than to drown the baby and just how sad mortified she is about the whole thing. drowning, in icelandic culture, is considered a very good death. the cold however, is not.

þetta er ekki rör þetta er fallbyssa WTF my childhood is now... Broken :(

þetta er ekki rör þetta er fallbyssa oh I read a fanfic where the Icelandic character from Hetalia sang that to the Harry Potter characters. They all flipped when they figured out what it meant.

That's not dark

@@emmaolivia101 Its a joke....

I randomly started singing Rockabye by Clean Bandit...Please don’t judge me... I thought you meant that song..

What's the other one with Mockingbird that would creep me out 'hush little baby don't say a word mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird' which clearly mean 'shut up or you will die' cuz weren't mockingbirds deadly (I edited it cuz it auto corrected *gonna* to *going to*

@@alyssaskits4155 oh that one

Maybe there is going the be a covid version now.

@@melissadevries7504 Covid was nowhere near as bad as the plague, but there’s a chance.

bruh no

No, Aphmau For Life, It's Raining Its Pouring The Old Man Is Snoring He went To Bed And Hit His Head And Couldn't Get Up In The Morning means that well yes. He did die. But what happened was he bumped his head so hard that he got a concussion and didn't wake up every hour on the hour and so he died. Bam. There goes the happy little nursery rhyme people sang when they were kids and it rained.

Fiona Granger thanks! I thought he just bumped it really hard and it just got worse while he was sleeping

Aphmau For Life gg

Aphmau For Life he tripped on his blanket, and hit his head on the headboard.

I know it always scared me

that's why they changed it. It used to scare my grandma when she was little

Aphmau For Life I

I agree! My grandmas still alive but I don't get to see her much...

Aphmau For Life we learned about this in school. It's actually back from the native Americans. They had their babies in cradles hanging from the tree tops with a piece of wood right where their forehead would rest. It's so if the cradle falls they don't hit their heads. Then when the Europeans came they saw that and made a song out of it.

Yes. Queen Mary I was known as Bloody Mary (there's a book about her with that title). She had more people put to death (often by burning at the stake) during the miserable five years of her religiously fanatical reign to make England Catholic again than her half-sister Elizabeth I did during the entire next 45 years of her reign. Queen Elizabeth I had two women named Mary in her life: the religious fanatic Mary I who died of uterine or ovarian cancer in 1558, and then Mary, Queen of Scots (another Catholic whose additional reason to overthrow the English queen included reinstating Catholicism to England), her cousin who plotted and schemed to overthrow Elizabeth I. After some 19 years of plots by Mary and her followers, Elizabeth finally signed the death warrant for Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587. If you don't have thirty years to read biographies and histories about the five generations of Tudors that started with the affair of the Welshman Owen ap Meredith ap Tydier with the widow Catherine of Valois and ended with the death of Queen Elizabeth I, there are Wikipedia pages about all of them and the major players in their lives. Of them all, Queen Elizabeth I has the most complex and interesting personality.

If she was known for burning Protestants why isn't her nickname Ashy Mary?

@@jami8555 two words, thumbs screws 😨

@@soulshard4713 ....

*well it all makes sense now*

Secret garden

That was what I heard. The thing was very large, and precariously balanced on the rampart.

pavv the original rhyme was actually pictured as a man the cannon story was added later

It was a Church - St. Mary's Church in Colchester, England. It fell off because a man with one eye fired it

Zahira Little Same

Yup

Yep same

Same here

Hey but that sounds worse

WELL NOW YOU DIED XD

Musicalgacha Girl26 MOOD

cool

Ouch XD

xD irony

Parent Helix that's what I was taught

we all did

Me too!

It was the ring around the rosies one aka the American version it was about the great fire of London since it says "ashes, ashes and we all fall down." And the original rosies one is about the plague. And so the rosies one that says "ashes, ashes we all fall down." Is about the plague ending with the great fire. Your welcome :D

Same

everyone says americans say ring around the rosies but i live in brighton U.K. and i say ring around the rosies

CallMeMaddy Yeah! I sing it like that as well when I was younger..

CallMeMaddy same

I say it his way

CallMeMaddy yep me but I have learnt and sung it both ways, and both ways make sense.

That scared me lol

I always sang "row row row your boat gently down the stream, if you see a crocodile don't forget to scream!" Because that's the only one my teacher taught us so when my friends said the one you sang I was really confused

Old belief that a ferry man takes you in a boat to the land of the dead.

Yes, because life is mearly a hologram to keep us entertained for as long as we lived on whatever we truly are living on currently. People need to be taught this is school.

LovelyDevil666 Animates thanks for the nightmares m8

I saw that rhyme, It terrified me

Tumbling after

I think it's tumbling

Is that not the original??

hewo

@@_cupid_ no it's not, that's the remake of the original

@@kylercoleman7892 oh

Same

Vanessica Bloxgirl never though of it like that

Dang that's messed up a lot

Wow. Finding Nemo is evil and terrifying... WHAT THE HECK DID I WATCH AS A KID?!

welp now im depressed

Whelp good try but it is actually in the ocean and in finding dory it’s even worse she was taken from her parents

Olive The Dingo Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's. You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? Say the bells of Old Bailey. When I grow rich, Say the bells of Shoreditch. When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney. I do not know, Says the great bell of Bow. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head! Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead

Oh Well then, is it bad that I only understand the last part with the candle ending at "dead?" XD The rest of it,and what it could mean, is unknown to me.

Olive The Dingo me either.

same

Olive The Dingo nither

Oranges and lemons rhyme is actually very scary . It is about the public execution in United Kingdom "All you that in the condemned hole do lie, prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die. Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near, that you before Almighty God will appear. Examine well yourselves, in time repent, that you not to eternal flames be sent, and when St Sepulchre’s bell tomorrow tolls, the Lord above have mercy on your souls.”

Lizzie Borden wasn't the actual one doing the chopping tho. She was involved in the murder, yes, but her uncle is the one who actually killed them, and both Lizzie and the maid were paid off to keep quiet about it. It's a true story too :)

Sorry I commented this thinking you wouldn't cover it. Sorry and just to say this video was really interesting

Emily Rodriguez no onder in kindergarten they banned that

Jessmin _ I didn't go through the comments so how do I know? I know you are just stating a sentence but it sounded kind of rude. No offense I don't want to be mean. I hate the mean people in the comments. I don't want to be them. Sorry but I don't really care.😒

They stuffed the pockets of the dead with fresh flowers to reduce the awful smell

Emily Rodriguez yeah I knew about that one

I heard this one too

Ring around the Rosie was the red ring in the skin. A pocket full of posies. The children and adults would pick posies to make​ medicine to try a cure the illness . And yes the burned the dead.

Midnight Umbreon girl my history teacher taught us that in 6th grade

teresa ames - Do you believe in the tooth fairy as well?

Yes

Rubina Purkaith ring'o ring'o Roses.

In the U.S. It's "Ring around the roses, a pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down"

That's basically the same way me and my friends uses to sing it in Jamaica

I said it like "ring around a Rosie a pocket full of posies husha husha we all fall down" anyone else??

Ring around the roses = means they have a red dots on their body A pocket full of poises = means each of dots contain poisons Ashes ashes = means cremation. We all fall down = means they already died

Oh my God lol

nursery rhymes in general are fucked. in america we have rhymes about axe murder,yhe influenza out break,a little girl drowning,ect.

Lizzie Borden took an axe Gave her mother 40 whacks when she saw what she had done she gave her father 41 theres also many rhymes about killing barney the dinosaur that differ depending where you grew up. i hate you you hate me lets gang up and kill barney with a baseball bat and a two-by-four no more purple dinosaur

MAKaplan55 I heard a few kids at my school on the playground singing something like the 2nd one....😑😑😑

Different variation? i heard theres one 'with a baseball bat and a bullet in his head' kids are homicidal freaks

the one that we use is i love you you love me lets get together and kill barney i dont know the rest

Klaire_Kat 14 me too

That basically stands for rituals

Klaire_Kat 14 same

Klaire_Kat 14 it is he said it wrong or learned it differently

Klaire_Kat 14 it is ring around the Rosie

Lol

lol

*eating sugar*

Jonny jonny yes papa Eating sugar no papa Open your eyes Papa found Jonny Jonny dead Because he had diabetes (Not meant to offend people with diabetes if it offends u I’ll delete you)

We used to say Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water Stupid Jill forgot the Pill And now she's got a daughter

Chauntele Kali , my school taught us that jack busted his head open and died then they warned us against running in the hall

Yep I learned that too! I learned a lot more alternate nursery rhymes as well....Hickory dickory dock three mice run up the clock, the clock struck one and the other two got away with minor injuries! Mary had a little lamb it's fleece was black as charcoal, every time it jumped the fence you'd see it's little arse hole! Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffit eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider and sat down beside her, and she said f#%k off hairy legs. Roll, roll, roll your joint, twist it at the end. Take a puff, that's enough, and pass it to a friend. Hey diddle diddle, the cat did a piddle, all over the bedside clock. The dog laughed, to see such fun,... And died of electric shock.

Jack and Jill went up the hill, Both with a buck and a quarter, Jill came down with two fifty..... Yeah, that fuckin whore! --- Andrew Dice Clay

jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water who knows what they did up there but they came down with a daughter.

Jasper the Fox basically sex

Jasper the Fox yeh

2017 ring around the Roses a pocketful of posies atishoo atishoo we all fall down so they sneeze they fall into a fire like

Canadia Valentine me too

I always heard the beginning as "Ring around the rosy"

That's how I heard it, too.

It’s more about how people cremated the victims of the bubonic plague and they also cremated them with roses and poses or just poses....... I forgot most of it but that’s what I remember my history teacher telling me

Lil’ bloody Gal also I think you would be learning the plauge (the black death) in high school or middle School

I thought it said ring around a Rosie a pocket full of posies achoo achoo we all fall down lol

We used to sing (with actions) "ring a ring o' roses, a pocket full of posies, atishoo atisho we all fall down" but I think ashes, ashes is more authentic because the word atishoo wasn't around until the 19th century.

Ooooo fancy 😂

Mary had a little lamb (little lamb, little lamb) Mary had a little lamb, who's heart was black as coal. It crept into her room one night (room one night, room one night) It crept into her room one night and ate her freaking soul. That's one I heard from my friend a few years ago XD

Noodles Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. Mary took her lamb to school one day, the kids let out loud jeers. The children took her lamb away and Mary choked on tears. Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was red with blood. She took its little body home and swore she'd hurt them good. Mary knew that lamb's blood called something ancient, hidden, and deep. As Mary painted signs of old, never did she weep. Mary had a little lamb, it made her something scary. Now I dare you, look in a mirror, and whisper Bloody Mary.

OH MY GOD....

Brilliant.

Animal Anime Lover how?

+lyle daphnie Aniban Yes I also wanna know how 'cause I got here becoz I read a mystery book and nursery rhymes there such as Twinkle Twinkle, Mary Had A Little Lamb are kinda creepy and like a code to the antagonists so I was really curious.

Alyssa Sumague Mary had a little lamb is referring to Marty had a ghost or spirit always haunting her. The little lamb is white and as a child many would think ghosts are too.

its about kids wishing to be a star in the sky away from harms way.

Like just that first verse? Because the original poem has like 4 or 5 verses and they're pretty star light explicit and never really mentions children or child like perspectives.

Great name for it

i think thats the american one

That's another verse, about how the great fire of London ended the plague in London

M BKSJDH oh... ok! sorry... I'm American and I didn't know

M BKSJDH ok

llama Cat yeah I learned it that way too.

This seems kind of hard to believe

Sophie Evitts when I was actually 11 I sing kpop lmao

Cool!

an - hyungs lol I am 11 and listen to alottttt of kpop

Sophie Evitts bitch

ken koblich badumtssss

ken koblich HAHA LMAO

ken koblich HAHA

ken koblich XD LMAO!!!!

Pugicorn Gamer same I learnt at school when we were learning about the black death

Abbey Coysh I learnt it in pre-school

Pugicorn Gamer me, I also learnt it at school

Same

I learnt about by my sister xD

Yea cuz its about how her father died and one of them did it and then it was her mother

yes. ashes to ashes...we all (rich and poor) fall down (die)

Yes

Yes.......

Lil Hawkeye Gaming i do

Lil Hawkeye Gaming + meeee

EpicRexx your history teacher is a sociopath, never go back to that class

Robert Snider Actually there are theories out there that is and one of them is.

EpicRexx my teacher said that too

Mary never had any miscarriages or stillborn children. She only had two phantom pregnancies.

kissofshadows21 What the heck is a phantom pregnancy?

Luna The gacha_girl haha I got it master is ur fucker and faster is speeding up lol

@@ruthwheeler1563 I didn't know so thkz I guess

oh god i was really scared when i first heard that one on here i thought it was going to be about child prostitues or something christ

OMG 😂

😏

It don't need to because we all know that one book and video that tell us it's an egg

@Matt THX AKA k

Humpty Dumpty represent the roman empire when roman empire fell no one can fix it again I remember my history class the roman empire try to fix the empire All king's men and horses try to fix him But no one can fix him

Puppy_slimes humpty dumpty was a cannon.

pious83 I beg of you not to become a builder.

There have been three (or more) London Bridges ... The current one dates from 1973 .. and is not Tower Bridge ...the rest burnt down or were demolished ...

+David Hedges Yet it still hasn't *fallen* down...

London Bridge: Alive and Well in Arizona: "In 1962, London Bridge was falling down. Built in 1831, the bridge couldn't handle the ever-increasing flow of traffic across the Thames River. The British government decided to put the bridge up for sale, and Robert McCulloch, Founder of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and Chairman of McCulloch Oil Corporation, submitted the winning bid of $2,460,000. " www.roadtripamerica.com/places/havasu.htm

I was gonna chime in with that. I was pretty sure one of them was over in Arizona.

yeah, i can tell you're french, you misspelled a lot of words but nevermind.

Bolty “never mind” is two words, not one, smarty pants :)))

@@crochetomania LoL even your English is bad coz there was nothing like you mentioned in Boltys comment Never mind tho

Political gossip was forbidden. It was very dangerous. This was news over the back fence, or gossip about those in power disguised as nonsense for children. This is why as Americans we treasure our freedom of speech.

Jane Alexander Yep. Us British people said "yo, go to that place in the corner of the world," until Washington and Hamilton and all were like 'nuh bro, your tea smells weird' and the British were like, bitch, but they were allowed to live on their own for ages until an orange took charge and handed it to a Russian and now free speech is cool if you're not black, a woman, a liberal, or if you're someone with common sense. Y'all treasure your freedoms by giving it to an Orange. Bravo, Merica. ~You'll be back~

+Emma Grant *me:* (Whispers) Burr was actually trying to shoot me cause he hates spiders shh but I was behind Hamilton

Emma Grant *me:* (silently slips out of huge ass door) *me:* You will be a hero in all arachnid kind. May the spiders you run into be scarce and smol, may your hair always be perfect, and may huge ass spiders keep a respectful distance from you because nobody actually likes to have spiders in their houses, the same way spiders don't like people in their houses.

Me: You're so welcome after all I don't want Burr to just be like up in here and shoot a spider that is so nice!

Okay...

Abby Marie you subscribe to what culture or get bitten by a vulture

Mischa Bernice Capacillo both

Abby Marie jk

Abby Marie Scary ikr

Everyone says that's the American version but I live in Brighton U.K. and that's how I grew up saying it.

Elizabeth Danger this is how I grew saying it: I don't know the words I don't know the words I don't know the words I don't know the words

i live in Australia and i would sing it as: ring around the roses A pocket full of posies ashes ashes we all die (:

I say Ringa round the roses Pocka full of Posies Ashes, Ashes. We all die down.

Same

What do you mean by meeee

Jessica Downey I don't remember the beating part... of that story.

Julia Garriott the part where it says she says "she gave them some broth without any bread and whipped them all soundly and put them to bed."

@Costy 96 tbh I forgot this comment existed

Luna Đorđević love Lizzie Borden

Luna Đorđević Sadly, It was a true story.

Close your door, lock it, latch it!Lizzie has a brand new hatchet!

* heard 0f that 1 * persona11y th*nk *t's de1*ghtful

Ooh I love that one, I sing it :)

NINJA PANDA yea same

It's different in The UK

SAME

Omar Guillen lol

Ikr

Oranges and lemons rhyme is actually very scary . It is about the public execution in United Kingdom "All you that in the condemned hole do lie, prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die. Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near, that you before Almighty God will appear. Examine well yourselves, in time repent, that you not to eternal flames be sent, and when St Sepulchre’s bell tomorrow tolls, the Lord above have mercy on your souls.”

Ya its VERY dark. How is that appropriate for kids?

Alycias Vids! No 😂

Bianca Antonucci qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq

Bianca Antonucci lololollololol

Same

HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKK

What version is that??

It's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring he went to bed with a knife in his head and didn't get up in the morning. He was very lazy

Skye Brown that was my favourite song in kindergarten...

Or its saying he couldn't get up cuase his head was hurting so it was hard for him to sleep

Skye Brown creepy

sounds fun

I drink your MALKSHAKE! I drink it UP! Exactly that’s what I’m saying

Ikr

Yeah I was confused when he said that

Different countries say it different. I'm from the USA and it's ring around the rosie

Alexis Wilson same here but except from Singapore

Kariena Stander I… don't know how to respond to that

Yeah, that's just... horrible

Kariena Stander did the red coats do that???😱😱

Kariena Stander that is the most messed up nursery rhyme ever

Kariena Stander wow im sry for the women like if you agree

Bruh

We sung: Ring a ring of roses a pocket full if poses a tissue a tissue we all fall down ashes in the water ashes in the we cant jump up or count 1-2-3

The last known incidence of the Black Death was before the Great Fire of London, 1666. Nursery rhymes can be shown quite convincingly to follow local versions of superstition that indicate differences in time from when they were first sung. :) [I learned, Ashes, ashes, all fall down]

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+rihanna brooks calm down

"Ring around the rosie" is a disease where you get rose like rings on your body. "Pockets full of posey" what they put on you so you dont smell bad. "Ashes,ashes" You get cremated "We all fall down" you died.

Cat Imagine lmao that’s why I️ don’t comment early ether XD

+CC and PP Gaming did you know that song is the devils lullaby

these idiots don't care about how accurate there material is he who follows what is popular is a fool because he thinks he is wise

That's funny!

yeh hes an egg

Samantha Skittlez he's not. He's actually a canon

Jhaedi Stark Makes sense

Essence Ghostkeeper yes

Essence Ghostkeeper if I want to sub to me,u don't have to tho

Sebastian Michaelis I did.

Sebastian Michaelis yes

same as me it reminded of black butler

i did. :)

Sebastian Michaelis no

Team Magma Ace Grunt and then they wonder why we turn out like this

Hell yeah it is, I sing to my kid about the bodies in the back yard....(jk)

Angus Heays same kast year accuwaly

Last*

Angus Heays I'm watching it on my mom's phone :D

Lol life am i right heheheee... fml

Angus Heays I got my phone for my birthday 2 years ago

i ;earned this version in school

kitty :3 I am literally lmao. That's awesome.

kitty :3 That old mother got f*cked by rover

Lmao😂

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I saw a version where the dog dies and comes back to life