It 's raining, it 's pouring - wikipedia It 's raining, it 's pouring `` It 's Raining, It 's Pouring '' Nursery rhyme Recorded 1939 Songwriter ( s ) Unknown Children 's literature portal `` It 's Raining, It 's Pouring '' is an English language nursery rhyme and children 's song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16814. Lyrics Common, modern versions include : It 's raining ; it 's pouring. The old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head, And he did n't get up til the morning. It 's raining ; it 's pouring. The old woman is snoring. She went to bed and bumped her head, And she could n't get up in the morning. It 's raining ; it 's pouring. The children are snoring. They went to bed and bumped their heads, And they could n't get up in the morning. Origins and interpretation The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in The Little Mother Goose, published in the US in 1912. The melody most often associated with it is the same as `` A Tisket, A Tasket '', which is in the public domain. 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. It was noted in 1939 in New York by Charles Ives ( 1874 -- 1954 ) and a version of it was copyrighted in 1944 by Freda Selicoff. It has 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 ( `` could n't get up in the morning '' ). References Jump up ^ C.W. Henderson, The Charles Ives Tunebook ( Indiana University Press, 2008 ), p. 141. Jump up ^ Anon, The Little Mother Goose ( 1912, Dodd, Mead & Company, 3rd edn., 1918 ), p. 169. Jump up ^ `` Audio Recordings It 's raining, it 's pouring '', Library of Congress, retrieved 16 June 2015. Jump up ^ C.W. Henderson, The Charles Ives Tunebook ( Indiana University Press, 2008 ), p. 141 ; Library of Congress Copyright Office, Catalog of copyright entries ( Library of Congress, Copyright Office, 1944 ), p. 1362. Jump up ^ A.H. Kaye, `` Essential Neurosurgery '' 3rd Ed., ( Blackwell Publishing, 2004 ), p. 57 Nursery rhymes ( list ) `` A-Tisket, A-Tasket '' `` Baa, Baa, Black Sheep '' `` Did You Ever See a Lassie ? '' `` Hey Diddle Diddle '' `` Hickory Dickory Dock '' `` Hot Cross Buns '' `` Humpty Dumpty '' `` I 'm a Little Teapot '' `` It 's Raining, It 's Pouring '' `` Jack and Jill '' `` Little Bo Peep '' `` Little Boy Blue '' `` Little Miss Muffet '' `` Mary Had a Little Lamb '' `` Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary '' `` Old King Cole '' `` Old MacDonald Had a Farm '' `` Old Mother Hubbard '' `` Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe '' `` Peter Piper '' `` Polly Put the Kettle On '' `` Poor Mary '' `` Pop Goes the Weasel '' `` Pussy Cat Pussy Cat '' `` Rain Rain Go Away '' `` Roses Are Red '' `` Rub - a-dub - dub '' `` Simple Simon '' `` Sticks and Stones '' `` The Grand Old Duke of York '' `` The Queen of Hearts '' `` Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star '' `` Two Little Dickie Birds '' Clapping `` A Sailor Went to Sea '' `` Down Down Baby '' `` Mary Mack '' `` Miss Susie '' `` Miss Lucy '' `` Pat - a-cake '' `` Pretty Little Dutch Girl '' `` Pease Porridge Hot '' Counting `` Duck, duck, goose '' `` Eeny, meeny, miny, moe '' `` One, Two, Buckle My Shoe '' `` One, Two, Three, Four, Five '' `` This Old Man '' `` Tinker, Tailor '' Finger - plays `` Five Little Monkeys '' `` Itsy Bitsy Spider '' `` Little Robin Redbreast '' `` Round and round the garden '' `` This Little Piggy '' Games `` London Bridge '' `` The Muffin Man '' `` Mulberry Bush '' `` Oranges and Lemons '' `` Ring a Ring o ' Roses '' `` The Farmer in the Dell '' Riddle `` As I was going to St Ives '' Lullabies `` Hush, Little Baby '' `` Rock - a-bye Baby '' Rounds `` Ding Dong Bell '' `` Frère Jacques '' `` Kookaburra '' `` Row, Row, Row Your Boat '' `` Scotland 's Burning '' `` Three Blind Mice '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=It%27s_Raining,_It%27s_Pouring&oldid=805373948 '' Categories : American nursery rhymes Year of song unknown Songwriter unknown Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 14 October 2017, at 23 : 21. About Wikipedia

Question: who went to bed and bumped his head
Answer: The old man