Star Light, Star Bright

DESCRIPTION: "Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, (I) Wish I may, (I) wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1934 (Henry, from Mrs. Henry C. Gray, or her maid), though it probably occurs earlier in Mother Goose collections
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MW,SE)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #430, p. 203, "(Star light, star bright)" (1 text)
Henry-SongsSungInTheSouthernAppalachians, p. 239, (no title) (1 short text)
Dolby-OrangesAndLemons, p. 178, "Star Light, Star Bright" (1 text)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, pp. 119-120, "(Starlight, star bright)" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, John Walker, "A Sampling of Folklore from North Carolina", Vol. 3, No. 2 (Dec 1955), p. 7 "(Star light, star bright)" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Joseph D. Clark, "Superstitions from North Carolina," Vol. IX, No. 1 (Jul 1961), p. 11, "(Str bright, star light)" (1 text)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 451, "Star Light, Star Bright" (notes only, saying that it was sung with "Rose, Rose")
OneTuneMore, p. 32, "Starlight, Starbright" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16339
NOTES [56 words]: Some time in my youth, I learned this with exactly the same words as occur in Henry (not the same as in Baring-Gould). So it has some sort of circulation. But I can't remember where I learned it; I have the strange feeling it was some Disney production or the like.
OneTuneMore credits this, or at least the tune, to Max V. Exner. - RBW
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