I want my speech to be about the ugly truth of the lullabies we sing our children, for example, Rock-A-Baby the two theories are that King James II of England. The King and his wife, Mary of Modena, we’re unable to produce a male heir. It is believed they had a baby boy smuggled into the birthing room and claimed him their own. Another theory is that an English migrant wrote the lullaby to America who married Native American women who would place their babies in birch cradles and suspend them in trees to be rocked by a breeze.
Three Blind Mice
The ” farmer’s wife” refers to Queen Mary I, otherwise known as Blood Mary. The “Three Blind Mice” were noblemen who were convicted of plotting against Queen Mary, and as a result, she had them burned alive at stake.
Ring Around The Rosie
About the Black Death in Europe around 1347, it would appear as sores on your body. People stuffed “posies,” which were flowers, into their pockets so they couldn’t smell the dead bodies that were piling up everywhere. They began to burn the bodies so the infection could no longer spread, referring to all of the “ashes.” The Black Death wiped out a significant 20% of the world’s population which signifies” we all fall.”
Humpty Dumpty
Reference to King Richard ii of England. He was portrayed as having a humpback. King Richard ii went to was at the Battle of Bosworth where he fell off of his horse(the wall) and was chopped into pieces by his rivals.
Rock-Bye-Baby
Is in the outline.”
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