Star Light, Star Bright
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| "Star Light, Star Bright" | |
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| Written | USA |
"Star Light, Star Bright" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16339.
Lyrics
The lyrics usually conform to the following:
- Star light, star bright,
- The first star I see tonight;
- I wish I may, I wish I might,
- Have the wish I wish tonight.[1]
Origins
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]
