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The oldest version of this rhyme reads: Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He went to bed and he bumped his head

And he couldn't get up in the morning

However, in the more common version, the third line is switched around:

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He bumped his head as he went to bed

And couldn't get up in the morning

With the later version, occasionally a more sinister sounding fourth line is used:

And didn't get up in the morning or And never got up in the morning

An alternate version reads:

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He went to bed with a cold in his head

And he didn't get up until morning

Another alternate version reads:

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He fell out of bed and bumped his head

And couldn't get up in the morning

Yet another alternate version (although the sources for this are very limited and obscure -- and somewhat obtuse as well):

It's raining, it's pouring

The old man is snoring

He bumped his head on a piece of bread

and couldn't get up in the morning

Parody

For Shakespeare's Macbeth: Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer Macbeth is among the most famous of William Shakespeares plays, as well as his shortest tragedy. ...

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.
• This rhyme is sung by children at the end of Supertramp's song, It's Raining Again.