To add to you distress, most american children (myself included) don't find out the background stories to their nursery rhymes until their late teens or early adulthood. And yes, I was grossed out.
I don't think most British children do either but that one is used for teaching about the plague so often that that is one we do know. But here in Australia children the history younger children are taught is about the colonisation of Australia, so there's no reason why they should sing the right words, I suppose.
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