Three wonderful granddaughters have each altered the venerable “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” substituting the fifth note of the scale (sol) for the second (re) in the song’s final line: “How I wonder what YOU are.”
One kiddo explained: “I like a little burst of excitement at the end.”
Friday, October 2, 2026
The folk process
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Interesting. That's the way I sing it when I do music with kids. (Though I usually use Lewis Carroll's parody lyrics, Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat.)
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