Twinkle Twinkle little star music box with wind-up mechanism

Familiar to almost everyone children's lullaby.
The classic rendition of the song, along with a cute animated video, has garnered more than 300 million views on YouTube — and this is just one of many.


Basically everyone knows only the first lines:
«Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky»,
however, the original "Star" is not limited to this. As we read the text, we understand that the star is always visible to those who are on a journey — and this, of course, is a guiding star. These four lines are also important because in the XIX century children's songs still practically did not work with imagery, and it was one of the first poems that taught the youngest to compare one with another, for example, stars with diamonds.

Christmas songs were often based on this melody — for example, to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" chorales are sung in Hungary, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany. The melody also formed the basis of two other children's songs - about the alphabet and the sheep. Of course, the list of influences is not limited to this: a parody of the original text is sung by the Hatter in Carroll's Alice (it is dedicated, of course, to hats and tea), Louis Armstrong uses it for the great "What a Wonderful World", Vashti Bunyan-for the short but memorable "Lily Pond", and witty scientists will repeatedly make its "realistic" versions, talking about plasma and pulsars.

In 1967, Leonard Nimoy, known as Spock from Star trek, released an album where Spock told earthlings what he thought of the planet. In one of the songs, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth", only the melody remained-and under it Nimoy asked the Earth "how I wonder what you are worth». The answer to it may well be the original-a completely simple, but very memorable song about a star that shows us the way and gives us hope.

The song is in the public domain.
It has many versions in different languages of the world.