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 ...

Chances are, most of us have at least once in our childhood sung the classic nursery rhyme "It's Raining, It's Pouring." But what many people don't know is that it has really dark and grim undertones.