Nursery rhyme songwriters: a bunch of liars and copycats (Picture: metro.co.uk)

A PSA for everyone in the world who hasn’t yet had their mind blown.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is the alphabet song.

Let us explain. Hum the song ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’. Now hum the alphabet song. They’re the SAME. TUNE.

It’s also Baa Baa Black Sheep, just to make your brains completely explode.


We asked around, and while a bunch of people reacted to this earth-shattering revelation with ‘yes, obviously, I already knew that’, there were others who had NO idea.

It was a confusing time of humming, singing, and wondering why the heck no one had mentioned this in the past twenty years.



And look at all the people on Twitter who have just had this same realisation for the very first time:

The tune to twinkle twinkle is ​*the same*​ tune to the Alphabet song & baa, baa black sheep. This puts life into perspective right now #WOW — Paul Stack (@stack72) October 7, 2015

I might be awake at 5am, I may have just had my mind blown, the ABC's are the same tune as twinkle twinkle little star, how did I not know? — TheMajikelOne (Joe) (@Majikel) October 8, 2015

Am I the only one who wasn't aware that twinkle twinkle and The abc song have the same tune… — Danielle✨ (@daniellemaxiine) October 6, 2015

Still freaking out that I'm 34 and didn't know that the alphabet and twinkle twinkle little star are the same tune!! ? — Richard Boland (@Dobson1818) October 7, 2015

Wow, took me 24 years to realise the alphabet was twinkle little star & I didn't even work it out for myself, someone told me… #peak — Louis VI (@JungleVIPmusic) October 7, 2015

So we had to share this important information with you, just in case you, too, had been living a life unaware of this essential piece of knowledge.

On a related note, did you know that the tune for Twinkle Twinkle/ABC/Baa Baa is based on a song composed by Mozart, called ‘Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman’, which loosely translates to ‘Ah! I would say it you, mum’. Catchy.

Half a century later, an American music publisher named Charles Bradlee adapted the tune to fit the alphabet, and the song was born.

The more you know.

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