"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is a popular children's lullaby. The lyrics are from an early 19th-century English poem by Jane Taylor, "The Star". It is the English version of the French song, "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman". In "Barney" it was first sung in "The Treasure Of Rainbow Beard".
Lyrics[]
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!
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How we wonder where you are.
Somewhere in this attic high,
We can't find you though we tried.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
Show us now just where you are.
Children's Song Used In...[]
- Barney Live! In New York City
- Barney's Colors & Shapes (Episode Featured: "The Treasure of Rainbow Beard")
- Barney's Good Day, Good Night
- Barney's Great Adventure
- Barney's Good, Clean Fun! (Episode Featured: "Good, Clean Fun!")
- Play and Learn with Barney (Episode Featured: "Good, Clean Fun!")
- Sing & Dance With Barney
- You Can Be Anything
- Barney's Night-Light Stories (Video Featured: Barney's Good Day, Good Night)
- Going Places with Barney (Video Featured: You Can Be Anything)
- Barney's Christmas Star
- Barney's Colorful World!
- Movin' and Groovin' (Episode Featured: "Let's Make Music!")
- Can You Sing That Song? (Scene Taken from: "Let's Make Music!")
- Top 20 Countdown (Scene Taken from: "Let Your Creativity Fly!")
- Let's Play Outside (Scene Taken from: "Starlight, Star Bright")
- Barney Rocks! El Concierto en Vivo!
- Most Loveable Moments (Episode Featured: "Beethoven's Hear!")
- Imagine with Barney (Episode Featured: "Imagine That!")
- Love 'n Lights Barney (2004)
Trivia[]
- The only episode to feature the alternate lyrics is Barney's Christmas Star.
- Starlight, Star Bright also alters “What you are” to “Where you are”, but the rest of the lyrics are the same.
- Most renditions are in the key of C.
- In The Treasure of Rainbow Beard, Barney Live! In New York City and Barney's Good Day, Good Night, the second repeat jumps to the key of D.
- In Ship, Ahoy!, the keys are D-flat and E-flat.
- In Falling For Autumn!, they are D and E-flat.
- In Barney's Colorful World!, they are D and E.
- Barney's Good Day, Good Night repeats the last line twice as slow and Barney's Colorful World! repeats the last two lines quadruple as slow as different tags.
- The former ending is made permanent starting with You Can Be Anything!, but was not used in the episode Let's Make Music!.
- Both verses use the same ending in Seasons 7 & 8, You Can Be Anything! and Beethoven's Hear!.
- The former ending is made permanent starting with You Can Be Anything!, but was not used in the episode Let's Make Music!.
- In Let Your Creativity Fly! and Imagine That!, the song is repeated three times.
- In Let's Make Music!, the first half of the song is instrumental. In Practice Makes Music, it is fully instrumental on a piano, switching to a Latin beat for the second half.