2006-08-07 11:52:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I've always wondered that myself!
....sorry I don't really have the answer though, just thought I'd say that.
2006-08-07 11:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to chuck in my two penneth (lovely old expression, probably haven't spelled it correctly at all) - the tune for Twinkle Twinkle etc was, in fact, written by none other than Mozart in the late 18th century as the theme for a short set of piano variations. It was then borrowed over the years to set various lyrics to, probably as it would already have been a fairly well known tune at the time.
It's also a very simple tune, and lends itself well to children's songs. It would be next to impossible to pinpoint when exactly the tune and the lyrics came together, unless someone had taken the trouble at the time to keep a record. In this way it's a bit like all folk music traditions, which evolve over the years having been passed down the generations not on paper, but by word of mouth.
2006-08-08 03:16:57 · answer #2 · answered by Jaydee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned about this in one of my classes. Basically because it is a lot easier for children to learn the words to a song. A lot of children songs have the same tune, not just the alphabet song and twinkle twinkle little star.
2006-08-07 23:01:29 · answer #3 · answered by whatev 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hers song number 3 with the same tune:
twinkle, twinkle chocolate bar
your dad drives a rusty car
start the motor, pull the choke
off it goes in a cloud of smoke.
2006-08-07 19:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i reali dont' feel like going and doing the actual research on it, but i would think that sense twinkle twinkle has more than one verse, that ABC's was actually based off of twinkle, not the other way around.
probably someone who had way too much free time
very perceptive of u though, props
2006-08-07 18:59:35 · answer #5 · answered by tallballa07 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter has this music player and i only realised they both have the same song when i was singing twinkle twinkle and her daddy was singing her the ABC. Sorry hon, i don't know the answer though
2006-08-07 18:59:00 · answer #6 · answered by stacie_9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because apparenty if you lay all the letters of the alphabet next to each other it will pave the way to a twinkling little star.
2006-08-08 08:35:59 · answer #7 · answered by jameshcwilson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know? that is very well spotted and i bet a lot of so called music experts didnt have the balls to answer and looked away. as a previous member also pointed out bah bah black sheep is also the same tune. the flood gates might open for more rhymes now lol.
2006-08-07 19:34:05 · answer #8 · answered by chopps . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are the most simple songs following a G Major chromatic scale. Nirvana use it in man who sold the world...it is the basis of all language and sound
2006-08-08 07:15:39 · answer #9 · answered by Super_Dave_the_Forth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the seseme street syndrom sing it like twinkle twinkle or big bird will swoop down & peck the life outta ya & toss you in oscars bin ............hope this helps
2006-08-07 19:44:34 · answer #10 · answered by keithrichardsdealer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because not all lyricists can write music, therefore they sometimes write new words to old tunes.
e.g. "Emerald City" by 'The Seekers' was sung to theme from Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
2006-08-07 19:02:15 · answer #11 · answered by Martin G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋