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Thread #141138   Message #4050766
Posted By: Jack Campin
06-May-20 - 03:56 AM
Thread Name: Help: Plague songs?
Subject: RE: Help: Plague songs?
"according to a couple of sites I looked at" - yeah right.

The Ring-a-Rosy yarn is total bollocks. Doesn't fit the medical and historical facts, zero evidence, and a solid history for the rhyme in variant forms that are completely inconsistent with the legend.

The earlier stages of the AIDS epidemic produced a number of public-health-info pop songs in sub-Saharan Africa. Some were well done and catchy, dunno if they are much remembered now.