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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
Urban myth , that song was written in the 17th/18th century , the black death happened about 300 years earlier,
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****, in which case the programes they showed us in history class was full of lies.
"A-tissue a-tissue we all fall down" refers to the pneumonic plague, which was a strand of the bubonic plague spread through sneazing. Similar to consumption in that you generally died coughing up blood. Posies down to the fact they believed disease to be spread by foul smelling miasma, and thus overpowering the smell symbolised the expulsion of the disease carrying air and thus they walked around with all sorts of stinky **** on their personage.