Editing Hey Diddle Diddle (section)

==Lyrics and music==
[[File:Hey Diddle Diddle 1 - WW Denslow - Project Gutenberg etext 18546.jpg|thumb|From Denslow's ''Mother Goose'' (1901)]]
A version of the rhyme is:<!-- Do not modify the below text; it is a direct quote from the cited source. -->
<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">
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.<ref name=Opie1997>{{cite book|author=I. Opie and P. Opie|author-link=Iona and Peter Opie|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes| publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 1977|page= 202|isbn=978-0-19-869111-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary0000opie/page/202/mode/2up|url-access=registration|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref></poem>

The rhyme is the source of the English expression "[[:wikt:over the moon|over the Moon]]", meaning "delighted, thrilled, extremely happy".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Cresswell|first=Julia|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins|year=2010|isbn=978-0199547937|page=279|entry=moon}}</ref>

<score sound raw>
\header { tagline = ##f }
global = { \key f \major \time 6/8 }

chordNames = { \set Staff.midiInstrument = #"acoustic guitar (nylon)" \chordmode { \global
  f,2.\p | c,:7 | f, | c,:7 | bes, | f,4. d,:m | f, c,:7 | f,2 s4 \bar "|."
} }

melody = \relative c'' { \global \set Staff.midiInstrument = "vibraphone" \autoBeamOff
  a8 a a a bes c | g g g g f
  g | a4 a8 a bes c | g4.~ g8 r \bar"" \break
  a | bes bes bes bes (c) d | c4 a8 f
  g a | c,4 c8 c d e | f4.~ f8 r8 r \bar "|."
}

verse = \lyricmode {
  Hey! did -- dle, did -- dle,
  the cat and the fidd -- le,
  the cow jumped o -- ver the moon;
  the lit -- tle dog laughed
  to see such sport,
  and the dish ran af -- ter the spoon.
}

\score {
  <<
    \new ChordNames \chordNames
    \melody
    \addlyrics { \verse }
  >>
  \layout { indent = 0 \context { \Score \remove "Bar_number_engraver" } }
  \midi { \tempo 4=100 }
}
</score>
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".<ref>J. J. Fuld, ''The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk'' (Courier Dover Publications, 5th ed., 2000), {{ISBN|0486414752}}, p. 502.</ref>