Download or read book The Singing Game written by Iona Archibald Opie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the histories of singing games such as ring a ring o' roses, oranges and lemons and others, and is an exposition both of the workings of folklore, and of the perennial ways of young children when left to play on their own. Each of the 150 games is described in historical detail.