History Behind Rhymes Our Childhood Rhymes (1)

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Kavya Choragudi
Mar 19, 2019   •  2 views

Britain has invaded many countries and has ruled them for years.
Hence it is known that many events and customs followed by the countries which have been rules by Britain are due the impact of British kingdom's monarchy.

Ballads, which are form of verse, or usually songs to which people would dance to, and were characteristic of the poetry and song of Britain.

There are many ballads or poems sung by Britain which had many hidden meanings but was unknown to the world.

The nursery rhymes we sang in childhood has the origin from Britain and these poems have dark truth and reason for their creation.

Britishers would make these poems and make all the citizens, even kids, sing these and that's how these poems became popular and spread across the nations.

Here are few poems with dark truths behind them:

Baa Baa Black Sheep:

Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full.
One for the master,
And one for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.

There are two legends regarding this rhyme:
One of it explains the tax on wool introduced in 1275 where a huge part of the tax money would go to the king(master) and the other part to the church(dame) and a very little amount of money was left for the shepherds(little boy Who lives down the lane).

other one states that it has to do with slave trade of africans to america, where "black"was referred to the African(slaves) while master was reffered to americnas who were holding the higher authority .

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