Also known as Sing hey diddle, diddle, Heigh Diddle Diddle, High diddle, diddle
Resumen
"Hey Diddle Diddle" (también "Hi Diddle Diddle", "The Cat and the Fiddle" o "The Cow Jumped Over the Moon") es una rima infantil inglesa. Tiene un número 19478 en el Roud Folk Song Index.
Lyrics and music
A version of the rhyme is:
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.
La rima es la fuente de la expresión inglesa "over the moon", que significa "delighted, thrilled, extremely happy".
The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870). The word "sport" in the rhyme is sometimes replaced with "fun", "a sight" or "craft".
