Dark meaning behind nursery rhyme 'it's raining it's pouring' is making people question their childhoods

"We used to chant 'It’s raining, it’s pouring' as we walked back from school, getting completely soaked by the rain. Nursery rhymes such as that, along with familiar characters like Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, and even the utensils that embarked on an escapade, constituted significant elements of our childhood. Strangely, we seemed to grasp them effortlessly, although we can't recall actually learning them.

However, it appears that the innocent rain song holds a much more somber implication. This seemingly cheerful tune now unveils a darker undertone. The once joyful melody apparently carries a 'significant' moral lesson, which some might find uninteresting.

Over on TikTok, a teacher known as 'Stupid Little Genius' disclosed the 'true significance' of this nursery rhyme that has remained ingrained in our minds for an extended period."

She starts off with a bit of creepy singing of the lyrics: “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. He went to bed, and bumped his head, and couldn’t get up in the morning.”

The teacher points out that the rhyme isn’t pointing out a specific person but rather tells us a ‘cautionary tale’.

She says: “Surprisingly, this rhyme has nothing to do with the weather at all. In actual fact, the old man liked a good drink.”

Yeah, us too. But apparently, he liked it so much that ‘raining’ and ‘pouring’ refer to booze, not the weather.

She says it’s ‘raining cocktails and shots’ - not rain itself.

Talking about said old man with the love for a few too many drinks, she says ‘he decided it’s time to sleep it off’ after starting to nod off and snore.

“But by this point he was so inebriated he probably couldn’t even walk in a straight line. So, when he went to bed he stumbled, fell or otherwise drunkenly bumped his head.”

The teacher, who ‘loves knowing where phrases come from’ then claims the bump was so bad that the reason he ‘couldn’t get up’ is because ‘he was dead’.

She claims: “Most experts agree that the old man never got up again because he suffered from a major head trauma.”

The woman concludes by reminding us not to drink so much we ‘bump our head’ and ‘end up dead’.

One TikTok user commented: “I’ve been wondering about this one! It always seemed so needlessly grim, but now I know it’s just needfully grim.”

And others were in shock as they wrote: “Why can’t anything be pure,” and called it ‘brutal’.

But others offered different theories, such as: “I took it as his wife hit him on his head because of his snoring.” And that really is brutal.

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