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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 ]
It has been argued [by whom?] that Little Boy Blue was intended to represent Cardinal Wolsey, who was the son of an Ipswich butcher, who may have acted as a hayward to his father's livestock, but there is no corroborative evidence to support this assertion. [2]
Mentioned in "A Pocket Song Book for the Use of Students and Graduates of McGill Colle". Baa, Baa, Black Sheep: Great Britain 1744 [16] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. Baloo Baleerie 'The Bressay Lullaby' United Kingdom 1949 [17] [18] Alliterative nonsense based around the Scots word for lullaby, "baloo". Billy Boy: United ...
An early reference to counting sheep as a means of attaining sleep can be found in Illustrations of Political Economy by Harriet Martineau, from 1832: "It was a sight of monotony to behold one sheep after another follow the adventurous one, each in turn placing its fore-feet on the breach in the fence, bringing up its hind legs after it, looking around for an instant from the summit, and then ...
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...
Miss Mary Mack was a performer in Ephraim Williams’ circus in the 1880s; the song may be reference to her and the elephants in the show. [ 7 ] According to another theory, Mary Mack originally referred to the USS Merrimack , a United States warship of the mid-1800s named after the Merrimack River , that would have been black, with silvery rivets.
The sheep knew he hit the jackpot and now he'll live out his life in peace and safety. Life gets busy on Darla Erwin's farm, but one thing is clear — her animals are very, very happy.
Brian Stokes Mitchell in 2008 sang this song with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, complete with donkey, cow, and sheep "voices". Garth Brooks recorded it on his 1992 platinum album Beyond the Season, giving the verses to various songwriter friends [5]. "The Friendly Beasts / L'Amikaj Bestoj" is a (free) simple score with all seven verses in ...