We all have countless childhood songs ingrained in our minds, but have you ever wondered where these nursery rhymes began and what exactly they mean? The answer is probably no since most of us have ...

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Children grow up hearing and singing nursery rhymes. Experts say that many nursery rhymes have a secret meaning, such as a parody of our everyday lives or a satire of historical events. Children may ...

We can recite them all: “Humpty Dumpty,” “Jack and Jill,” “Old King Cole,” “Little Miss Muffet,” etc. Yes, nursery rhymes. Even though we know the words to hundreds of them, we are unaware of their ...

As a child, we all remember learning the words to nursery rhymes, but have you ever wondered what the popular song Ring a Ring o' Roses actually means? The song you may have sung with your friends ...

The sweet melodic tones of the charming nursery rhymes you sung during your childhood as you skipped round the playground are probably still on the tip of your tongue. As you joyously laughed and ...

'It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring. He went to bed, and bumped his head, and couldn't get up in the morning.' We all remember it from childhood, right? But do you know the real ...

Nursery Rhymes - bit of innocent fun to entertain the little ones on a rainy day, right? Wrong. Those seemingly-innocuous verses that every child who grew up in the UK knows off by heart are anything ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Search the web for nursery rhyme meanings and you'll find many elaborate explanations for their origins ...