As not­ed in anoth­er post, I sing Twin­kle, Twin­kle, Lit­tle Star to my baby boy when I am putting him to sleep. All I know is the first verse (well, and the strange one about a bat up high like a teatray in the sky, but it turns out that’s from Alice in Won­der­land) and singing that one verse over and over gets pret­ty bor­ing, pret­ty quick­ly.

I’ve tried my hand at mak­ing up more vers­es (as have count­less oth­er par­ents, I am sure). I came up with vers­es that get clos­er and clos­er to the ground, going from start to comet, the Sun, a satel­lite, and final­ly a fire­fly. Then I dis­cov­ered from Wikipedia that the orig­i­nal song has five vers­es of its own, and is rather love­ly. Now I am try­ing to mem­o­rize this:

Twin­kle, twin­kle lit­tle star,

How I won­der what you are,

Up above the world 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 trav­eller 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.

Twin­kle, twin­kle, lit­tle star,

How I won­der what you are!

Source: Wikipedia on Twin­kle, Twin­kle Lit­tle Star