Ring-a-ring o' roses,

A pocket full of posies,

   A-tishoo! A-tishoo!

We all fall down. 

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1951, p. 364. No. 443

Ring-a-ring-a-roses, 

A pocket full of posies;

Hush! Hush! Hush! Hush!

We've all tumbled down. 

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 253. No. 639

Ring a ring a rosie 
A bottle full of posie 
All the girls in our town 
Ring for little Josie

Newell, William Wells. Games and Songs of American Children. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1883.

Round the ring of roses 
Pots full of posies 
The one who stoops last 
Shall tell who she loves. 

Newell, William Wells. Games and Songs of American Children. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1883.

Ring-a-ring o’roses, 
A pocket full of posies, 
Hush! hush! hush! hush! 
We’re all tumbled down

Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881.

Ring-a-ring o’roses, 
A pocket full of posies, 
One for Jack, and one 
for Jim, 
And one for little Moses. 
A-tischa! A-tischa! A-tischa! 

Burne, Charlotte Sophia. Shropshire Folk-Lore: A Sheaf of Gleaning. London : Trübner & Co., 1883.

Ring, a ring o’roses, 
A pocket full o’posies, 
Up-stairs and down- 
stairs, 
In my lady’s chamber— 
Husher! Husher! 
Cuckoo! 

Gomme, A.B. The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (2 vols.). 1894, 1898; New York: Dover, 1964.

Ring-a-ring o’roses, 
A pocket full of posies, 
Hush-a, hush-a, we all fall down. 
Cows are in the meadow, 
Lying fast asleep, 
Hush-a, hush-a, we all jump up. 

Opie, I. & Opie, P. A Family Book of Nursery Rhymes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Ring-a-ring o’roses, 
A pocket full of posies, 
A-tishoo! A-tishoo! 
We all fall down. 

The cows are in the meadow, 
Eating buttercups, 
A-tishoo! A-tishoo! 
We all get up. 
OR 
The cows are in the meadow, 
Eating all the grass, 
A-tishoo! A-tishoo! 
Who’s up last? 
NOT ME! 

Emerson, Sally. The Nursery Treasury. New York: Doubleday, 1988.