“It’s raining, it’s pouring.”
There are plenty of old school nursery rhymes with exceptionally dark truths behind them.
For instance, Ring A Ring A Roses is all actually about the Great Plague. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary is thought to be about Bloody Mary, the daughter of Henry VIII and her murder of protestants.
But now, it appears not even It’s Raining, It’s Pouring is safe.
It’s funny, because most of us seem to remember such rhymes without ever really knowing how.
Most of us, don’t even know what we’re singing about. But now, rest assured, because a teacher has appeared on the horizon, revealing exactly what “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring” is all about.
On TikTok, the teacher who goes by the name of Stupid Little Genius, revealed the meaning of the nursery rhyme has absolutely nothing to do with rain. In actual fact, it’s to do with alcohol.
Let’s refresh our memories, the rhyme goes: “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.”
Spoiler alert: the old man wasn’t being soaked by the rain, he was getting drunk, as ‘it’s raining, it’s pouring’ quite literally means it was raining alcohol into his mouth.
The teacher confirms that the rhyme is a cautionary tale, saying: “Surprisingly, this rhyme has nothing to do with the weather at all. In actual fact, the old man liked a good drink.”
The teacher added that the old man in the rhyme had consumed so many drinks he decided to sleep off the booze on his walk home. However, he was in fact so drunk that he tripped over and banged his head.
And we’re not talking lightly as the teacher says he banged his head so heavily that he couldn’t get up because he was dead.
The teacher claims: “Most experts agree that the old man never got up again because he suffered from a major head trauma.”
Drink responsibly.
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