Does Anyone Remember This Song?

There are urban legend type hoaxes suggesting that the rhyme in a reenactment of the Great Plague of London or the bubonic plague, but modern folklorists are pretty united in say that is simply FALSE. The arguments were that during the plague people carries sweet smelling things in their pockets and that falling down meant dying of the plague, but scholars say, and I believe them on this, that the term "faling down" referred to bowing and curtseying, the female equivalent of bowing. Many of the really old customs such as May-baskets, Maypole winding, and some of the nursery rhymes, too, survived nearly intact, passed down from mother to daughter as recently as my own childhood, and when my own mum taught me this song the girls curtseyed using the word "down" as a cue and the boys bowed.

I think the origins of this song actually goes back to the early Middle ages and was actually a reference to the Black Plague, and I right? Hehee