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Ring around the Rosie is not about the plague: http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm

Cockles are either a weed or a bivalved mollusk.... anyone ever hear the song of Molly Malone who sold Cockles and Mussles?

I think someone has let their imaginantion run wild... Jack and Jill???? The crown is the top of the head... not down there!

Come on, we can say that it means something else, but that doesn't make it so. This reminds me of my high school literature teachers who said that symbolism existed, even if it was not the author's intent... Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Cockles are either a weed or a bivalved mollusk.... anyone ever hear the song of Molly Malone who sold Cockles and Mussles?

Mind you, while I was in Dublin some of the Trinity professors published an argument that she was a prostitute and that ‘cockles and mussels’ was a pretence. Both code and also gave her an excuse as to why she called to various houses through the day if the guards picked her up. Mind you, that caused a lot of debate and theirs was much better backed up than this because they could show other examples of nicknames in literature from the time using shellfish, etc as nicknames for sex workers and services.

I think someone has let their imaginantion run wild... Jack and Jill???? The crown is the top of the head... not down there!

Damn straight. The author is drawing a pretty long bow here!

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

I used to think that until Bill and Monica…now it’s much harder to enjoy a good Cuban!

The crown is the top of the head... not down there!

I'm not so sure. You can find numerous ribald references and graffiti that was left by various cultures over time. I've seen examples of this in Roman ruins and in Viking. I've seen some good examples of ribald rhymes from the Victorian Era. It wouldn't surprise me if many rhymes that we think of as nursery rhymes had carnal connotations or double meanings.