Hi diddle diddle The Cat dumped the fiddle
And now plays the electric guitar.
The Cow and her friends said they wouldn’t “Jump”
‘Cause “The Moon” was out a little too far.

Little Dog’s band laughed at the dish
But they laughed a little too soon.
‘Cause she and her partner won the contest
With a dance that they called “The Spoon”.

I wrote The Dance Contest to explain an old nursery rhyme that was actually written for teenagers, “High diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle”. I am probably the only one that is aware of this little known fact. This line is actually about a fiddle player that switched to an electric guitar.

The Cow, in “The cow jumped over the moon,” was a dance group that thought the new dance called the Jump was a little too far out and refused to do it.

Little Dog in, “The little dog laughed to see such a sight,” was the name of the band. They were making fun of the way a really good-looking girl (Dish) and her partner were dancing.

They of course felt a little foolish when the couple won the contest with a brand new dance called the spoon, as in, “And the dish ran away with the spoon.”