“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.
“So when he went to bed he stumbled, fell or otherwise drunkenly bumped his head. And that must’ve been some bump because he couldn’t get up in the morning.”
While you’d suspect the man couldn’t get up due to a rough hangover, there’s actually a much more depressing reason.
The TikToker concludes: “Well, he was dead. That’s right, most experts agree that the man never got up again because he suffered from a major head trauma.”
And things get even darker if you delve further into the origins of this nursery rhyme.
‘It’s Raining, It’s Pouring’ is listed as an example in Andrew Kaye’s ‘Essential Neurosurgery’ medical book, per American Songwriter.
