Shoots and Ladders Lyrics

Song Meaning, Jonathan:
It was written because all these little kids sing these nursery rhymes and they don't know what they originally meant. Everyone is so happy when singing, but 'London Bridge' is about the great fire of London, caused by a fire that started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, in the Middle Ages. 'Ring Around The Roses' is about the black death... as a pocket full of posies was supposed to keep the black death away. All of them have these evil stories behind them." "The lyrics are all from nursery rhymes, and a lot of nursery rhymes go back to the Middle Ages. They're actually pretty twisted if you know the stories behind them, like about Black Death and stuff.

Ring around a roses
Pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down X 2

Chorus
Nursery rhymes are said, verses in my head
Into my childhood they're spoon-fed
Hidden violence revealed, darkness that seems real
Look at the pages that cause all this evil

One, two, buckle my shoe
Three, four, shut the door
Five, six, pick up sticks
Seven, eight, lay them straight

London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down
London bridge is falling down, my fair lady

Chorus

Nick knack paddy whack, give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home X 6
This old man came

Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow

Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow
(Baa baa black sheep have you any wool) - in background
Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow
(Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full) - in background
Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow
(Baa baa black sheep have you any wool) - in background
Mary had a little lamb
(Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full) - in background X 2

Ring around the roses
Pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down X 2

Chorus

Nick knack paddy whack, give a dog a bone X 3
Nick knack paddy whack, give a dog a