Lately, as part of Evan’s bedtime routine, I’ve been singing him a couple of short songs before he goes to sleep. It was Betsy’s idea — she started doing it first, and it seems to be working. Pretty often, the songs are “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and “You Are My Sunshine,” in that order.
It was only yesterday that I realized something: the end of the first song asks a question (implicitly), and the beginning of the second song answers it correctly. Check it out:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are.
And then:
You are my sunshine …
What is a star? It’s just a sun that’s further away.
This is especially cool because it’s a science-y question and a science-y answer, featuring knowledge that’s relatively new on the grand timeline of astronomical inquiry. (I don’t think the ancient Greeks would have agreed that the sun is a star.)
I’ll tell Evan when he’s older.
Have a good weekend!
Brian D. Buckley 
My epiphany moment came when I realized “The ABC” song was sung to the tune of “Twinkle twinkle little star” mind blown.
Yeah I had that same epiphany! It was crazy. Like, why didn’t anybody tell me? What other secrets are out there?