Little known fact: Hey Diddle Diddle was originally a joint effort between Mother Goose and her cousin Father Duck. It was part of a collaborative writing assignment they completed while attending Rhyming UniNursery. In fact, this Nursery Rhyme is so old that when she wrote it, Mother Goose was no Mother. They simply called her Goose. Upon achieving fame, Goose dropped both the second verse and credit toward Duck for fear of being overshadowed by his far superior prose. Here is the original version.

Hey Diddle Diddle (Origin of the Spork)

By Goose and Duck 

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Bye diddle diddle,
This caused such a riddle,
For the spoon was betrothed to the fork,
But the fork got his wish, the spoon left the dish,
And the two soon had a baby spork.

Spoon, Fork, and Baby Spork