Hear No Evil

My oldest came home from school one day last week telling me that this is what she heard some of the kids in her class chanting:

Ring around the hooker;
Pocket full of moolah.
Ashes, ashes...
We all get *screwed.

(*Note: I did not want to insert the "f" word here.)

They had recently learned how the original rhyme started. I don't know if this is how the chant started or if it is old and someone is repeating it. (I don't even know if I like this rhyme anymore. Not because of the "modified" version, but because of the origins of the rhyme.)

Sigh. I realize I can't plug her ears or protect her from hearing all this stuff. I know that the older she gets, the more she will be exposed to this kind of language-in high school and college, at work, and from the media (TV, magazines, books, etc.)

I don't remember hearing stuff like this when I was her age. I was probably sheltered from all this, because I didn't "catch" things.

Ignorance is bliss.