Thursday, August 25, 2005

Track: Shoots and Ladders

Artist: Korn

This song's lyric comes from many well-known nursery rhymes, e.g. Mary has a little lamb, London Bridge, Ring around the rosie...

The last one is not well-known to me though 'coz I just learned it from my daughter's swimming class.

You might have read that "Ring around the rosie" is from the Europe Middle Age plague
era, i.e., many died of the "black death disease" transmitted by rats. Scary huh?

"Shoots and Ladders" is about the dark origin of nursery rhymes. I think they want to ridicule that we teach such creepy songs to kids.

However, the Urban Legend page disputed the association of "Ring around the rosy" with the plague though.

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