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Ring-around-the-roses is, as mentioned in the OP, a nursery rhyme. It is also a common children's game, at least in the US. The exact words vary, as is true of all playground rhymes, but this is the version with which I'm most familiar.
Chapter 15 of A SHARE IN DEATH(mystery story)begins this way, Suffolk to Sussex to Wiltshire to Oxfordshire, ring around the roses. It made Gemma dizzy to think of the past two days. And tired. (Gemma: Gemma James, a female sergeant, in London.) What does the phrase ring around the roses mean? No clues in the context. You would say it is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing gameâ¦.â¦..