Songs About Plague

Ring around the rosie a song for the plague.

Songs about plague. Guillaume de machaut who survived the scourge of europe wrote about it in his le jugement du roi de navarre from the 14th century. Riders of the plague. Original remake of the in. The big disease back then of course was the bubonic plague.

They are all about plagues pandemics viruses and the mass death and suffering these unfortunate things tend to bring in their wake. As the title suggests 92 weird diseases describes the various illnesses and medical afflictions. The 4ad release gathers together the 10 original recordings presented in. Plague songs is an unusual collection of songs corresponding to the ten biblical plagues as revealed in the book of exodus in the old testament.

Our apologies to gwen s fans but it s for the cause of education. To please the eyes and plague the heart fun flicks and the tricks you know about it dead bolts and the wired ways and the times and the rhymes you knew. A sad kind of creepy song but eric makes it a good song anyway released in 1967 from the cd winds of change. For some purely non topical reason today we have decided to throw up a playlist of tracks with one distinct feature.

Our top ten list of songs about viruses pandemics outbreaks mass death. The songs were originally commissioned by the british arts organisation artangel for its project the margate exodus which centres on a one day event that took place in margate on 30 september 2006. There are three types of plagues but the black death was the bubonic plague with symptoms such as large black boils in the groin the neck. It s hard to find a song to parody for such a gruesome subject.