From Newsgroup: rec.music.folk

On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 3:03:37 PM UTC-4, ptba...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 12:55:05 PM UTC-4, Joel Polowin wrote:

I've enjoyed listening to Arlo Guthrie's "Ring-Around-A-Rosy
Rag" for a long time; it's upbeat and catchy. But I've never
been able to figure out what it's really *about*. (Not the
nursery rhyme, which according to incorrect folklore refers
to the Black Death; Guthrie's unrelated song. "Ring around,
ring around Rose / Touch your nose and blow your toes /
And mind after doin' the Ring-Around-A-Rosy-Rag.") Can
anyone here help?

Thanks!

I had a friend there the night that song was wrote. Arlo was in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia PA, a bunch of people were hanging out. Somebody got the ideal to play Ring arounf the Rosie. The cops didn't like it, so they arreted over 80 people. Arlo sat there in the holding cell and wrote the song.

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From Newsgroup: rec.music.folk

On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 3:03:37 PM UTC-4, ptba...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 12:55:05 PM UTC-4, Joel Polowin wrote:

I've enjoyed listening to Arlo Guthrie's "Ring-Around-A-Rosy
Rag" for a long time; it's upbeat and catchy. But I've never
been able to figure out what it's really *about*. (Not the
nursery rhyme, which according to incorrect folklore refers
to the Black Death; Guthrie's unrelated song. "Ring around,
ring around Rose / Touch your nose and blow your toes /
And mind after doin' the Ring-Around-A-Rosy-Rag.") Can
anyone here help?

Thanks!

I had a friend there the night that song was wrote. Arlo was in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia PA, a bunch of people were hanging out. Somebody got the ideal to play Ring arounf the Rosie. The cops didn't like it, so they arreted over 80 people. Arlo sat there in the holding cell and wrote the song.

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