The Real Meaning Behind Nursery Rhymes

The Real Meaning Behind Nursery Rhymes

Remember going around with your friends singing those cute, giggle worthy nursery rhymes? After reading this you will soon relies that your innocent child play, was singing to morbid, or even sickening tails of murder, death, abuse. This is the real meaning behind nursery rhymes.

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Chapter 2.

Row Row Row Your Boat

ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT


     The lovely child song row row row your boat.
Don't worry, it's not bad. It's actually supportive... In a way.

   The original

  Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merely merely merely,
Life is but a Dream.


The verse " row, row, row your boat"
This verse was speaking about life.
We go through our life doing things we want or don't want to do, but we never stop rowing until you croak.
Life is a boat and your rowing through it.

The verse " gently down the stream"
This verse is telling you to take our time.
It's telling us to take it slow and not rush through things. We don't skip life or just rush through it, savor every moment.

The Verse " merely merely merely"
This verse means to be Positive!
We don't row the boat angerly but merely. Not forcefully, but merely. Don't let negative things ruin your rowing.

The verse " life is but a dream"
This verse is telling you that this is your life!
We do what we want with it, if we have a dream, we achieve it.
Don't let others ruin your life.


Now for the alternate versions ( not decoding)

Propel, propel, propel your craft,
Placidly down the liquid solution.
Ecstatically ecstatically ecstatically,
Existence is but an allusion

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Throw your teacher overboard
And listen to her scream.

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
If you see an alligator,
Don't forget to scream.



I'm sorry this isn't morbid. It's just my fav, and I wanted to decode it :)
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Comments (19)

Sliversplashthecat
Why? Why would they have a baby's death in a lullaby that some of your parents sang to you when you were a child it's not very reassuring
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on May 08, 2016
simple_sheep
hard core XD i love dis!!!
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on September 26, 2015
catlover000
I did'nt Know Ring o' Ring Of Roses Was Worldwide Lol, It is Wrote Fromm When The Plauge Hit A Town Near Me!
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on December 02, 2014
madison1
Good Idea for a story pretty interesting
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on May 13, 2014
XxDrewIsYourMasterxX
Leave it to Kazzy to look up the weirdest stuff.
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on May 13, 2014
Paraboilc
humpty dumpty, I heard was a (very important) man who was pushed off the wall and the king tired to have him healed, but he died anyway
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on May 13, 2014
Paraboilc
in the maden part, could it also refer to the torture and murder instrument known as the "iron madden"?
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on May 13, 2014
rue2160
i was reading about javk and jill one day and was scared for life
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on May 12, 2014
XxChristoferDrewsWifexX
Ahhhhh i put four score instead of three score on the HUMPTY Dumpty one.
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on May 12, 2014
Frostgoddess
It's ok. :)
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on May 12, 2014
XxChristoferDrewsWifexX
@Frostgoddess yeah I know, I'm going to try and add more to it once I get more info. Sorry it's confusing.
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on May 12, 2014
Frostgoddess
I don't get the 'Hark Hark the dogs do bark' one......
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on May 12, 2014
Cristallite
Wow,
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on May 12, 2014
Cristallite
I knew ring o roses one already
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on May 12, 2014
MEGS0316
o.0 my innocent childhood is gone :((
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on May 12, 2014
XxChristoferDrewsWifexX
@BlueTurkey thank god u didn't spoil the whole story, I was going to have to kill you if you did :P
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on May 12, 2014
Frostgoddess
My Mom used to sing the 'propel propel propel' one all of the time. XD
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on May 12, 2014
BlueTurkey
@Eridan_Ampora I was learned that it was about the plague. Because "Ring around the rosie" means it's highly contagous.
"Ashes, ashes" meaning they'd burn the bodies of people who died of the plague.
Lastly "We all fall down" meaning that alot of people got it.
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on May 12, 2014
Frostgoddess
That's horrible! OoO
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on May 12, 2014