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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