"It's Raining, It's Pouring" is an English language nursery rhyme and children's song of American origin.
The earliest known audio recording of the song was made in 1939 in New York by anthropologist and folklorist Herbert Halpert and is held in the Library of Congress.
[4] Charles Ives added musical notes in 1939,[citation needed] and a version of it was copyrighted in 1944 by Freda Selicoff.
It has further been suggested that the verse is a "classic description" of a head injury ("bumped his head"), followed by a lucid interval and an inability to resume normal activity ("couldn't get up in the morning").
[7] Andrew Kaye in Essential Neurosurgery suggested that, in regard to the first verse at least, the rhyme is an interpretation of an accidental death.