You may think nursery rhymes are just cute tales and stories for our sweet little children. But are they really? Most are inspired by real events and daily life from hundreds of years ago, and they're not always as innocent as they seem.
Dana & Parks looked into the origin of some popular rhymes and discovered the origins of many nursery rhymes have a darker, and sometimes disturbing (for our modern sensibilities), meaning behind the songs.
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D&P Highlight: Wait...why did 'piggy go to market'?!?
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For instance, "This Little Piggy" -- one of the pigs went to the market but it wasn't to get groceries, it was actually to be slaughtered.
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