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Ring around a Rosey, 1897.
時間回到1897年,正在進行Ring Around a Rosey 遊戲的孩童


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福特(Ottie Brails Ford)與一群小孩玩  "傑西叔叔來了" ,5/16/1939

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許多歌曲都有相對應的遊戲相片中的歌「傑西叔叔來了」 (Here Comes Uncle Jesse) 一首圍成圓圈玩時會亨唱的歌曲;一名女孩站在圓圈的中央而其他的女孩則繞著圓圈中的女孩或走或跳,當她們唱到「來呀,女孩」(come on gal),他們會停下來,而圓圈中的女孩就要「搖擺」。

有些歌詞內容則是含有迷信的建議,好比說:「假如妳想找到屬於妳的男孩,我告訴妳該怎麼辦!只要將鹽及胡椒粉灑在鞋子裡就可以了」。 您能夠想到任何一首建議人們如何 覓得女孩或男孩的歌曲嗎?

 
Many songs had corresponding games. The song in this clip, "Here Comes Uncle Jesse," is played for a ring game in which one girl stands in the middle. The other girls skip or march around her, and when they sing "come on gal," they stop and the girl in the center "shakes."

Some song lyrics include superstitious advice such as, "If you want a feller, I tell you what you do, Jes' git some salt an' pepper an' put it in yo' shoe." Can you think of any songs that have advice for finding a gal or a feller?

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CREDIT: Rau, William Herman, photographer. "Ring around a Rosey." Copyright 1897. Print and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
AUDIO CREDIT: Ford, Ottie Brails and Group of Children from Wiergate High School. "Here Comes Uncle Jesse." May 16, 1939. Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip, Library of Congress.