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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.
In many versions, then, the roses and posies signify what flowers often signify in traditional European culture: not suffering and death, but joy and love. Children playing âRing Around the Rosieâ in Chicago, Illinois, April, 1941. Photo by Edwin Rosskam.