Hey Diddle Diddle![58]
: NURSERY-SONGS.: Popular Rhymes And Nursery Tales
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat scraped the fiddle,
The cow jump'd over the moon;
The little dog bayed
To see such sports played,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
The unmeaning "Hey diddle diddle" is a corruption of the very
intelligible which is literally "Sing
words not clear, and Sing words clear;" with which may be compared a
Sibylline verse in Greek,
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