While set to bouncing, carefree jingles, some nursery rhymes are not always the delightful little ditties that their arrangements make them seem. Some remark on historic evils, medieval illnesses, and ...
“It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring,” has been sung to children for generations. And you might have thought it’s just a wholesome nursery rhyme about weather and a clumsy man, but ...