| "Star Light, Star Bright" | |
|---|---|
| Nursery rhyme | |
| Published | Late 19th century |
| Genre | Children's song |
| Composer(s) | unknown |
| Lyricist(s) | unknown |
"Star Light, Star Bright" is an English language nursery rhyme of American origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16339.
The lyrics usually conform to the following:
The superstition of hoping for wishes granted when seeing a shooting or falling star may date back to the ancient world. [2] Wishing on the first star seen may also predate this rhyme, which first began to be recorded in late nineteenth-century America. [3] The song and tradition seem to have reached Britain by the early twentieth century and have since spread worldwide. [2]
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