<Li> Pete Seeger released a version on the Birds Bugs and Little Fishes LP (Folkways Records FC7610) in 1955 </Li> <Li> Composer Alan Mills recorded a version for Scholastic Records released in 1956 on Animals, Vol. 1 </Li> <Li> The song was used for an animated cartoon sung by Burl Ives . Ives's version included an extra verse, involving a pig, following that involving the goat and preceding that involving the cow . </Li> <Li> The song's lyrics were used as the text of a children's book by Simms Taback . A video version of the song by the publisher was sung by Cyndi Lauper . Both these versions also feature the animals and the artist talking . A cow stands in the middle of one of the pages surrounded by flowers, a carton of milk, a Hershey milk chocolate bar, some different types of cheese, a bar of butter and containers of cream cheese and sour cream . So the famous moral is "never swallow a horse". </Li>

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