It's Raining, It's Pouring
- It's Raining, It's Pouring
"It's Raining, It's Pouring" is the first line of an English-language nursery rhyme.
Oldest Version
The oldest version of this rhyme reads:Verify source|date=April 2008:"It's raining; it's pouring.":"The old man is snoring.":"He bumped his head and he went to bed,":"And couldn't get up in the morning."
Variations
Parody
For Shakespeare's Macbeth::"It's raining; it's pouring.":"The old king's not snoring.":"He got into bed and was found dead,":"When they went to him in the morning."
Popular culture
*A children's book of the same name, written by Kin Eagle and illustrated by Rob Gilbert, expands on this rhyme to show what happens to the old man in all sorts of weather.
*The PC game Delaware St. John Volume 1: The Curse of Midnight Manor, begins with the ghost of a little girl singing this rhyme in a spooky manner while it's storming outside.
*Jose Feliciano sang this as part of his release, "Listen to the Falling Rain".
*This rhyme is sung by children at the end of Supertramp's song, It's Raining Again.
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