Rain, Rain, Go Away

“Rain, Rain, Go Away” has been sung by kids for at least 400 years — it showed up in print in the 1600s, and it was probably around even earlier. One fun (if unproven) theory says it dates back to 1588, when stormy weather helped English ships defeat the Spanish Armada. True or not, it's stuck around for centuries as the go-to rhyme for grumbling about a rainy day.