Nursery rhyme origins are often murky. The history of this one is both apocryphal and slightly lewd. Rub-a-Dub-Dub as a ...

and a lot of the lyrics are still the same as they were back then. So why are these nursery rhymes so popular? And why should we still sing them to our children? We chatted to Clare Wood ...

chances are you’ve heard this nursery rhyme before (probably while you were in a bath): That said, the lyrics of “Rub-a-Dub-Dub” refer to a decidedly adult situation. Oral traditions are ...