LL-L "Traditions" 2003.11.10 (03) [E]

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From: Jannie Lawn <jannie.lawn at ntlworld.com>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2003.11.08 (07) [E]

Dear Lowlanders:
Two quotes, which I think may talk about 2 different children' s songs.
1)  I seem to recall as a young child singing a song about dancing around
the Hollerbush.  Does this seem at all familiar?
and:
2)  I know it in German, which may be the only version, and it's sung to the
tune of "Ring around the rosies" and "performed" in a circle:

   Ringel-rangel Rosen,
   Schöne Aprikosen,
   Veilchen und Vergissmeinicht.
   Alle kleinen Kinder setzen sich,
   setzen sich in'n Holderbusch,
   machen alle husch, husch, husch.

   (Ring around the rosies,
   lovely apricosies,
   violets, forget-me-nots.
   All little children sit down,
   sit down in [= under] the elder bush,
   and they all go whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.)

My comment: In English there are the song:
'Here we go round the Mulberry bush, early in the morning.'
and another one:
'Ring-a-ring-a roses,
a pocket full of posies.
Hatischa, hatischa,
we all fall down'.
(Don't know the English spelling for 'hatischa', but that is what it sounds
like to my Dutch ears)

Groeten, Jannie Lawn

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