nursery rhyme the cow jumped over the moon
Hey Diddle Diddle "Hey Diddle Diddle" (also "Hi Diddle Diddle", "The Cat and the Fiddle", or "The Pig Jumped Over the Moon") is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19478.[1]
Eleanor Rigby The song is often described as a lament for lonely people[16] or a commentary on post-war life in Britain.[17][18]
Wind the Bobbin Up Iona and Peter Opie traced this rhyme back to Netherlands in the 1890s. When they were collecting games in the 1960s and 1970s the version they encountered was:
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