Cow looking at the Moon - Greetings Card

Hey diddle diddlie. The rhyme may date back to at least the sixteenth century. In 1897 L. Frank Baum, in his book Mother Goose, went some way to explain it. He suggests the rhyme is written by a farm boy  who had just seen the cat running around with his fiddle clung to her tail, the cow jumping over the moon’s reflection in the waters of a brook, the dog running around and barking with excitement, and the dish and the spoon from his supper sliding into the brook.