Editing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (section)

== Other versions ==
[[File:Song-stories-for-the-kindergarten 1896 twinkle-twinkle-little-star sheet-music.gif|thumb|Sheet music from ''Song Stories for the Kindergarten'', setting the words to a different tune<ref name="archive.org">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/SongStoriesForTheKindergarten|title=Song Stories for the Kindergarten|last=Mildred J. Hill|date=26 July 1896|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>]]
{{listen |filename=Song-stories-for-the-kindergarten 1896 twinkle-twinkle-little-star sheet-music.mid |title=Tune used for the song in ''Song Stories for the Kindergarten''}}

Additional variations exist such as

1. From the 1840 novel [[Poor Jack]] (chapter 4), by [[Frederick Marryat]].

{{blockquote|<poem>
Pretty little twinkling star,
How I wonder what you are;
All above the earth so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
</poem>}}

2. From 1896 in ''Song Stories for the Kindergarten''<ref name="archive.org"/> by [[Mildred J. Hill]].

{{blockquote|<poem>
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How we wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

When the glorious sun has set,
And the grass with dew is wet,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

When the golden sun doth rise,
Fills with shining light the skies,
Then you fade away from sight,
Shine no more 'till comes the night.
</poem>}}

A [[parody]] of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" titled "[[Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat]]" is recited by the [[Mad Hatter]] in [[s:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Chapter 7|chapter seven]] of [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.<ref name=gardner98>{{cite book|last=Gardner|first=Martin|author-link=Martin Gardner|title=[[The Annotated Alice]]|publisher=[[Random House]]|year=1998|isbn=978-0-517-18920-7|page=98}}</ref>

[[File:Twinkle twinkle little star.webm|thumb|Woman performs "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" singing game.]]
A version using synonyms from ''[[Roget's Thesaurus]]'' exists.<ref>Geoffrey Hughes, ''A History of English Words'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2000), p. 40. {{ISBN|9780631188551}}</ref>

The opening lyrics are also used to begin the traditional murder ballad "[[Duncan and Brady]]."

The song can also be played as a [[singing game]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Free Lead Sheet – Twinkle Twinkle Little Star |url=https://michaelkravchuk.com/free-lead-sheet-twinkle-twinkle-star/ |website=Michael Kravchuk |access-date=5 May 2022}}</ref>