THE HISTORY OF TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
One of the most popular lullaby songs to sing to baby originated in France about 250 years ago. This was only the tune of the song, the beloved lyrics evolved later. The lyrics were written in 1806 in England when sisters Jane and Ann Taylor published their second books of poems for children called “Rhymes for the Nursery.” The poem “The Star” was written for that book by Jane and are sung as the tune we know today “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”
SONG LYRICS FOR “TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR”
The video above from SuperSimpleLearning’s youtube channel reminds us of how to sing this lullaby. Below are the words to Jane Taylor’s poem “The Star” which is the full version of the song that we know and love today:
- Twinkle, twinkle little star
- How I wonder what you are.
- Up above the wold so high
- Like a diamond in the sky
- Twinkle, twinkle little star
- How I wonder what you are!
- When the blazing sun is gone,
- When he nothing shines upon,
- Then you show your little light,
- Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
- How I wonder what you are!
- Then the traveler in the dark
- Thanks you for your tiny spark;
- He could not see which way to go,
- If you did not twinkle so.
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
- How I wonder what you are!
- In the dark blue sky you keep,
- And often through my curtains peep,
- For you never shut your eye,
- ‘Till the sun is in the sky.
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
- How I wonder what you are!
- As your bright and tiny spark,
- Lights the traveller in the dark,
- Though I know not what you are,
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star.