Hey Diddle Diddle

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Hey Diddle Diddle (1772)

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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. 1880).
"Sing hey diddle diddle" 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" in The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose by Arthur Rackham (St. Nicholas, Oct. 1913)
"The Cat and the Fiddle" in The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright (1916)
"Hey Diddle, Diddle" in The Child's Own Music Book by Albert Ernest Wier (1918).