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Ring a Ring O' Roses

Traditional

ages 0 to 2nursery rhymesread aloudabout 8 seconds aloud

Everybody joins hands, circles round, and tumbles down together at the end. It's one of the best-known singing games in the language, built entirely for group play.

From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.

Ring a ring o' roses,
A pocketful of posies.
Tisha! Tisha!
We all fall down.

Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition

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