After researching into children's songs and nursery rhymes, we decided to look into the meanings of many of them, the first one we looked into was 'Ring Around the Rosy'.
Ring Around the Rosy
This nursery rhyme has many connections to the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death). The idea of the nursery rhyme is that the symptoms of the the disease was a 'rosy' red rash which was shaped like a ring. Many people believed that if they filled their pockets with a sweet smelling herb (posies) then the plague would go away. The term 'Ashes Ashes' refers to the burning of all of the dead bodies as the death rate was 60% and the plague was only stopped due to the Great Fire of London in 1665.
Teddy Bears Picnic
As this song is not a nursery rhyme, there is not any specific history, however we were interested in the idea that the line 'if you go down to the woods today, be sure of a big surprise' is able to refer well to our trailer idea. we like the idea of the young boy to be singing this song quietly to himself.
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