Ring a ring a roses a pocket full of posies tisshu, tisshu we all fall down.
Where are the grown ups where are they today?
Away shooting each other leaving the little ones to play.
Where is your Mummy, where is your Dad?
They are not here, and that makes us feel sad.
Why do you crouch down like that, near the floor.
We are dodging the bullets and rockets when we hear them roar.
Is this shocking is this wrong
Surely this is something we should not allow to go on.
We speak from the warmth and safety of our home
But ducking and hiding from war is all these children have known.
Where are all the grown ups where are they today.
Ring a ring a roses a pocket full of posies tisshu, tisshu we all fall down.
Mummy is at work and Daddy is at war, far far away.
Why are you so wet has it rained today,
We have been playing with the hose pipe. Have you water spare to play,
There are children dying of thirst in the world today.
Is this shocking is this wrong,
Surely this is something we should not allow to go on.
Are these children happy what will they say
When they get home will Mummy still be happy will Daddy still be away.
Ring a ring a roses and pocket full of posies tisshu, tisshu we all fall down.
Where are all the grown ups where are they today.
Sadly they are all connected fighting each other in wars today.
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I wrote this twist on Ring a Ring a Roses on 14/November/ 2011.
The original nursery rhyme is about people who died of the plague or not depending on your point of view.
I saw my version as a tale to show the contrast between children who live in a war zone and those
who live in, what to the children from the war zone would see as a charmed life
I then decided to link their fathers as the protagonist in the wars raging around the world.
World leaders and religious leaders send their men and women off to fight these unending wars.
God ( what ever you call him/her ) help us all.
I would also like to direct you to a post I read on Palestine Rose , I then saw the same post reblogged on John Coyote’s blog .