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"Hey Diddle Diddle" (also "Hi Diddle Diddle", "The Cat and the Fiddle", or "The Cow Jumped Over the Moon") is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19478. [ 1 ]
The original "Hey Diddle Diddle" nursery rhyme, on which Tolkien's song is based, [7] may date back to the sixteenth century or earlier. Some sources suggest it may be a thousand or more years old: a cat playing a fiddle was a popular image in early medieval illuminated manuscripts .
Hey Diddle Diddle 'Hi Diddle Diddle', 'The Cat and the Fiddle', 'The Cow Jumped Over the Moon' Great Britain c. 1765 [128] The rhyme itself may date back to at least the sixteenth century. Early medieval illuminated manuscripts depicting a cat playing a fiddle were also popular images. [129] How Many Miles to Babylon? United Kingdom c. 1801 [130]
Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a well-known nursery rhyme. A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. [1]
The early years of the twentieth century are notable for the addition of sophisticated illustrations to books of children's songs, including Caldecott's Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book (1909) and Arthur Rackham's Mother Goose (1913). The definitive study of English rhymes remains the work of Iona and Peter Opie. [11]
The rhyme is first recorded in The Newest Christmas Box published in London around 1797. It may be derived from 'Diddle, diddle, diddle Dumpling', a traditional street cry of hot dumpling sellers. [ 1 ]
Hey Diddle Diddle is a well-known English nursery rhyme. Hey Diddle Diddle may also refer to: Hey Diddle Diddle, a 1976 album by Play School; Hey-Diddle-Diddle, and Baby Hunting, an 1882 picture book by Randolph Caldecott; Hey Diddle Diddle, a 1937 play by Bartlett Cormack "Hey Diddle Diddle", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
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