Hey Diddle Diddle

I just bought a book for my son titled "Hey Diddle Diddle", and found out that it was a nursery rhyme. The melody is quite catchy, and the lyrics are funny.It goes like this in case some of you are not familiar with it:Hey diddle diddleThe cat and the fiddleThe cow jumped over the moonThe little dog laughed to see such funAnd the dish ran away with the spoonIt goes over and over inside my head, and it got me thinking, what the song is all about. The title says "Hey, Diddle Diddle", so it might be just playing around. But is it, actually?My focus was on the part where the cow jumped over the moon. How could a cow jumped that high? Is it just a metaphor? Or maybe the cow was abducted by some alien, so it floats high in the sky, over the moon, and was described as such in the lyrics.Which might explains about the cat and the fiddle. It's not about a cat playing a fiddle, but it's the sound that the alien made while abducting the cow, which resembles the sound produced by a fiddle. Seeing such a sight, the dog barks and barks all night long, alerting the cow's owner to be cautious, but the owner mistaken it as a dog's laugh.When the abduction is over, the dish ran away with the spoon. The dish represents the flying saucer, the alien's spaceship used to abduct the cow, and the spoon represents the alien with an oval-shaped head, so basically it's a scene where the alien is getting away with its spaceship into the outer space.That might be the reason why it was titled with the word "Diddle", since people will thought of it as a playful rhymes; a joke, while it actually represents something more than that. Something that was kept as a secret since someone didn't want the whole world to know such conspiracy....What the hell am I smoking via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2quKGPn