Here is a timeline of some of the most well-known songs and when they became associated with the French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman. The ones you probably know the best are the ABC song and Baa Baa, Black Sheep. Many more songs share the same tune as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, all borrowing from the original French melody “Ah ! vous dirai-je, maman”. Popular Songs That have borrowed from the original French melody “Ah! vous dirai-je, maman.” The French poem “Le faux pas” is about a boy telling his mother how his father’s varied demands torment him, but the boy thinks candy is worth more. I also included the lyrics and a translation of the original poem “le Faux pas.”
The earliest known children’s lyrics and poems attached to the French melody”Ah! Vous dirai-je” was around 1765 with a poem called “Le Faux Pas.”įolk music has a rich history of taking a single melody and attaching new lyrics with different stories or meanings.īelow is the original poem set to music. Nearly 50 years before the sisters Jane and Ann Taylor wrote their famous poem “The star,” which later became “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star,” French children sang different words with a different story to the same catchy tune. No one knows for sure when the “The Star” was set to music using the French melody “Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman” however, they were first published together (lyrics and music) as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” in 1838 in “The Singing Master: First Class Tune-Book.” French children sang a different song to the same tune nearly 50 years earlier. The year that Jane Taylor’s poem “The Star” was set to music. According to French historian Henri-Irénée Marrou, the origins of the French melody that Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star uses is an anonymous pastoral song dating back to 1740 making it over 280 years old. The French melody “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman” was first published without wordsin 1761 in a book of music called “Les Amusements d’une Heure et Demy by Mr. Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman” (Oh! Shall I tell you, mommy) The catchy tune associated with Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is set to an old French Folk song called “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman” (Oh! Shall I tell you, mommy). Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’s melody is borrowed from a 280-year-old French melody. “The Star” was first published in 1806 in a volume of children’s poems by the two sisters called “Rhymes for the Nursery.”īelow, on pages 10 and 11, is the original children’s poem from that volume. The words to the nursery rhyme “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” are based on an English poem called “The Star,” written by a 23-year-old English poet and novelist named Jane Taylor in collaboration with her sister Ann Taylor. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is a famous lullaby with straightforward lyrics and a catchy melody.īut have you ever wondered who wrote it or pondered over its meaning? What about the catchy tune? Why does it sound exactly like the A-B-C alphabet song? Who wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? A brief history of the lullaby Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Here are the lyrics to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in French and English with audio and the original French song children used to sing to the same melody, long before Twinkle, Twinkle Little star was even written. What do Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, The Alphabet Song, and Baa-Baa Black Sheep have in common? They all use the same catchy tune borrowed from an old French melody over 280 years old.
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