resembling the modern form was printed around 1765 in London in Mother Goose's Melody with the lyrics:

High diddle diddle,The cat and the fiddle,The cow jump'd over the moon;The little dog laugh'dTo see such craft,And the dish ran away with the spoon.

This is accompanied with the following commentary:

It must be a little dog that laugh'd, for a great dog would be ashamed to laugh at such nonsense.

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