And the dish ran away with the spoon. Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently celebrating "Cow Week," took a good, hard look at the bovine portion of that rhyme. Tyler LeBlanc wrote this expose of ...

The short, nonsense rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle” might be the most recognizable nursery rhyme of them all. It even gave birth to a common phrase—”over the moon”—which is part of the rhyme, as we’ll see ...

There are cats and fiddles, cows jumping moons, dogs giggling, and dishes that run, literally, taking spoons along with them – what’s ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ all about? ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ is an ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. # Hey Diddle Diddle, the cat and the fiddle # The cow jumped over the moon # The little dog laughed to ...

For Cow Week, NPR's Wade Goodwyn blows the lid off of a children's nursery rhyme. He talks to Modern Farmer correspondent Tyler LeBlanc about... Hey-Diddle, A Fiddle And A Moon-Jumping Cow? NPR Moos ...

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. Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently ...

You know the nursery rhyme: Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently celebrating "Cow Week," took a good, hard look at the bovine portion of that rhyme. Tyler LeBlanc wrote this expose of sorts, and ...

Yes, indeed, cows can leap. Here, Regina Mayer jumps with her cow Luna — yes, Luna — over a hurdle in southern Germany, in 2011. (AP) ...