- A TikToker revealed the dark truth behind ‘It’s Raining, It’s Pouring’ – a rhyme that children up and down the UK have sung for years
- The video has racked up an impressive 195k views – it also has nearly 150 comments
People are just now discovering the true meaning behind a classic childhood nursery rhyme and it’s darker than anyone could have thought.
A TikToker who goes by ‘StupidLittleGenius’ shared a video that revealed the dark truth behind ‘It’s Raining, It’s Pouring’ – a rhyme that children up and down the UK have sung for years.
Everyone knows the rhyme goes like this:
‘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.’
But do you know what it means? Viewers were mind-blown that it’s not actually about the weather.
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The TikToker said ‘although it doesn’t describe any specific person, it does tell us a cautionary tale. ‘Surprisingly this rhyme has nothing to do with the weather at all.
‘In actual fact, the old man liked a good drink and ”it’s raining and pouring” refers to the alcoholic drinks being poured very liberally like it’s raining cocktails and shots.
‘That’s right, the old man was drunk, very drunk,’ she continued.
‘Anyway, after drinking so much that he couldn’t stay awake, he started nodding off and snoring so he decided it’s time to sleep it off.
‘But, by this point he was so inebriated, he probably couldn’t even walk in a straight line.
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‘So, when he went to bed, he stumbled, fell, or otherwise drunkenly bumped his head.
‘And that must have been some bump because he couldn’t get up in the morning, because well… he was dead.’
She went on to explain that most nursery rhyme experts agree that the old man never got up again because he suffered from a major head trauma.
Though, no one knows what he supposedly cracked his head on in the fictional tale.
She ended the video with: ‘So there you have it, a cautionary tale to remind us that when it’s raining and pouring alcoholic beverages, don’t drink so much that you bump your head or you could end up dead.’
The video has racked up an impressive 195k views – it also has nearly 150 comments.
Commenters were quick to share their shock, with one person writing ‘no way!!’ and another saying ‘that’s it ruin my childhood memories.’
People also debated their own ideas about what the rhyme meant – some didn’t believe this explanation and some had their own theories.
One viewer wrote ‘When I was a kid and questioned this I was told it’s to tell you never to sleep with a concussion or soon after banging your head?’
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