About Ring Around the Rosy#
This English singing game has been sung in playgrounds for well over a century, and the action of a ring of children who all fall down is part of the song itself. The popular claim that it encodes a coded memory of the plague is folklore about folklore: historians have found no real evidence for it, and the rhyme is far younger than the Black Death.
The tune could hardly be simpler on a 6-hole ocarina. It uses only a handful of notes between C and A, all in the middle of the range, which makes it one of the first melodies a new player can pick out by ear.
Ring Around the Rosy Lyrics#
Ring around the rosy,
A pocketful of posies,
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down.
Ring Around the Rosy Ocarina Tab#
| G | G | E | A | G | E | |
| F | G | G | E | A | G | E |
| G | E | G | E | |||
| E | G | G | C |