The Star (Taylor)

For works with similar titles, see The Star.

Versions of
The Star (1806)
by Jane Taylor

"The Star", popularly known as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", was first published in Jane and Ann Taylor's Rhymes for the Nursery (1806). It is sung to the tune of the French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman", which was published in 1761. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7666 and has many adaptations around the world.

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Versions of The Star include:

"The Star" in Rhymes for the Nursery (ed.) by Jane and Ann Taylor (1806).
"Twinkle, Twinkle" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (ed.) by Sabine Baring-Gould (1985).
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" in Poems That Every Child Should Know (ed.) by Mary E. Burt (1904).
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" in The Child's Own Music Book