"Ring Around the Rosie" is a English nursery rhyme, folk song and children's playground singing game. Descriptions first emerge in the mid-19th century, but are reported as dating from decades before, and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. The song first appeared in the Barney franchise in Three Wishes.
Lyrics[]
Original Lyrics[]
- Ring around the Rosie,
- A pocket full of posies.
- Ashes, ashes,
- We all fall down!!
Current Lyrics in the Barney franchise[]
- Ring around the Rosie,
- A pocket full of posies.
- Ashes, ashes,
- We all fall down!
- Tiptoe around the Rosie,
- A pocket full of posies.
- Ashes, ashes,
- We all fall down!
- Skip around the Rosie,
- A pocket full of posies.
- Ashes, ashes,
- We all fall down!
- Hop around the Rosie,
- A pocket full of posies.
- Ashes, ashes,
- We all fall down!
- Run around the Rosie,
- A pocket full of posies.
- Ashes, ashes,
- We all fall down!
Alternate Lyrics From Three Wishes[]
- Ring around the Rosies,
- pocket full of posies.
- Ashes, ashes,
- We all fall down!
- Ring around the Moonkin,
- Moonkin is our new kin.
- Stardust, stardust,
- We all fall down!
Song Used In...[]
- Three Wishes
- Honk! Honk! A Goose on the Loose!
- Barney Live! In New York City
- It's Raining, It's Pouring...
- Run, Jump, Skip and Sing
- Circle of Friends
- Las Canciones de Barney 2
- Barney For Baby: Love and Lullabies
- You Are Special
- Be My Valentine, Love Barney
- A Dormir con Barney
- Red, Yellow and Blue!
- A Perfectly Purple Day
- Now I Know My ABCs (Scene Taken from: "Easy as ABC")
- Easy as ABC
- Playing Games
- Play with Barney (Episode Featured: "Playing Games")
- Perfectly Purple (Episode Featured: "A Perfectly Purple Day")
Trivia[]
- The game was played originally in Three Wishes, Honk! Honk! A Goose on the Loose!, Barney Live! In New York City, Circle of Friends, You Are Special, Red, Yellow and Blue!, A Perfectly Purple Day, and Easy as ABC.
- In It's Raining, It's Pouring..., The kids Min, Tosha, Jason and Carlos played the game with the parachute. after the "All Fall Down" part, they lift up the parachute and lower it gently and the get back up again.
- The game was played with a ribbon pole in Be My Valentine, Love Barney and Playing Games.
- In Be My Valentine, Love Barney, The second and fifth verses weren't sung.
- In Red, Yellow and Blue!, the fifth verse wasn't sung. Instead, the first verse was sung first and last.
- In It's Raining, It's Pouring... and A Perfectly Purple Day, The second, third, fourth, and fifth verses weren't sung. Instead, the first verse was sung again and/or one more time.
- In You Are Special, The fourth and fifth verses weren't sung.