On Nov 10, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Saturday 10 November 2007 17:58:49 bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote:
>> Ring Around the Rosie does not seem to be about the plague.
>
> No? Tell us more!
>
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp
Another song in my son's compilations is the rather suspect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Working_on_the_Railroad
--ravi