[Dixielandjazz] Ashes

[Laurence Swain]

Fr M J "Mike" Logsdon wrote:
 
> Actually, one of the urban legends websites (can't recall which one)
> identifies the bubonic plague connection as spurious,
> 

Snopes debunks the plague connection here:

	http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm

Perhaps reading snopes will help stifle any further discussion of this innocent old nursery 
rhyme on the list.

Larry Swain