Hey Diddle Diddle

Versions of
Hey Diddle Diddle (1772)

This nursery rhyme may date back to at least the sixteenth century. The earliest recorded version of the poem resembling the modern form was printed around 1765 in London in Mother Goose's Melody. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19478.

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Versions of Hey Diddle Diddle include:

"Hey diddle diddle" in Nursery Rhymes (c. 1885).
"Nursery Jingle X" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
"Hey! diddle diddle" in A Book of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Welsh (1901).
"Hey! diddle, diddle", edited by William Fayal Clarke, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose (October 1913)
"Hey Diddle, Diddle" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918).