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"Hey Diddle Diddle" (also "Hi Diddle Diddle", "The Cat and the Fiddle", or "The Cow Jumped Over the Moon") is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19478.
One of the most commonly used modern versions of the rhyme is:
<poem>
Hey diddle diddle, The Cat and the fiddle, The Cow jumped over the moon, The little Dog laughed to see such sport, And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.</poem>
In more recent versions the archaic 'sport' is replaced with 'fun' or 'a sight'.
The book comments:"It must be a little dog that laugh'd, for a great dog would be ashamed to laugh at such nonsense." There is a reference in Thomas Preston's A lamentable tragedy mixed ful of pleasant mirth, conteyning the life of Cambises King of Percia, printed in 1569 that may refer to the rhyme:
<poem>
They be at hand Sir with stick and fidle; They can play a new dance called hey-didle-didle.</poem>
Grewia retusifolia is a shrub species in the family Malvaceae. Common names include Dysentery Bush, Emu-berry, Dog's Balls, Turkey Bush and Diddle Diddle. It produces small, sweet, edible fruit.Indigenous Australians use the bark and leaves in medications.
Hey diddle diddle, the cow and the fiddle
I'll jump over the moon
Look overthere, what a sight
He's run away with the spoon
Hey diddle diddle, ask me a riddle
Who could love you more than I
Hoot that horn, he's real gone
Hey diddle diddle he's eatin' his Christmas pie
He's ballin' fast, he's ballin' slow
Hey diddle diddle, watch that man and go
Like Jack and Jill, goin' up the hill
Humpty dumpty sittin' on the wall
I'm gonna fall, off that wall
Hey diddle diddle, will you love me best of all