From Oxford Al, to Pell City Al, all I see is rain, rain, and more rain.
Driving into the office was a little hard this morning don't know why the street was closed but I suspect you guessed in Rain. Of course then I get the little nursery rhyme stuck in my head and got to wondering where did it come from and whom made it up. Take a look at what I found the wikipedia is a awesome website.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_Rain_Go_Away
Lyrics
There are many versions and variations of this rhyming couplet. The most common modern version of is:
Origins
Similar rhymes can be found in many societies, including ancient Greece. The modern English language rhyme can be dated to at least to the seventeenth century when James Howell in his collection of proverbs noted:
A version very similar to the modern version was noted by John Aubrey in 1687 as used by "little children" to "charme away the Raine...":
A wide variety of alternative have been recorded including: "Midsummer day", "washing day", "Christmas Day" and "Martha's wedding day".[1]
In the mid-nineteenth century James Orchard Halliwell collected and published the version:
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