---
title: "And the Cow Jumped Over the… Ford"
description: "Rethinking a favorite nursery rhyme with cars in mind."
date: "2016-01-07"
modified: "2016-01-07"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin.md"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/1547/and-the-cow-jumped-over-the-ford"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Ford"
---

# And the Cow Jumped Over the… Ford

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One of the English-speaking world’s most famous nursery rhymes is a terrifying, likely hallucinogen-induced spectacle of flying cattle, anthropomorphic dogs, violin-playing cats and a heated, clandestine romance between two kitchen objects. Written to delight children, it often throws them into a swirling, psychedelic world where boundaries are dissolute and it’s O.K. to say the word “diddle.” It goes like this:

*Hey diddle diddle,*

*The cat and the fiddle,*

*The cow jumped over the moon.*

*The little dog laughed,*

*To see such sport,*

*And the dish ran away with the spoon.*

Such rhyming madness must have driven Monty Reger, of Santa Monica, Calif., to train his Texas Longhorn to hurdle. Here, circa-1935 at the Fourth Annual Santa Monica Rodeo, Monty guides his massive bull over an unsuspecting coupe. (The bull’s form, it must be noted, is impeccable.) Like a oversize collie, the bull sails over the car, its grace and menace in perfect union. We hope such a beast jumped for many years, until at which point its joints failed him, and he was sautéed.

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

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