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{{short description|English nursery rhyme}} {{other uses|Hey Diddle Diddle (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox song | name = Hey Diddle Diddle | cover = Hey Diddle Diddle 2 - WW Denslow - Project Gutenberg etext 18546.jpg | alt = | caption = Illustration from [[W. W. Denslow]]'s ''Mother Goose'' (1901) | type = [[Nursery rhyme]] |artist= | written = | published = {{circa}} 1765 |genre= | writer = Traditional | composer = | lyricist = }} "'''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.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S298441 | title=Roud Folksong Index S298441 Sing hey , diddle 'diddle, the cat and the fiddle | publisher=[[English Folk Dance and Song Society]] | work=[[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]] | access-date=May 20, 2016}}</ref>
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