The Quiz: “Baa Baa Black Sheep” and “The Alphabet Song” have the same tune as what?
Pop Goes the Weasel
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
London Bridge
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
All three songs draw their shared melody from the French song, “Ah! Vous Dirai-Je, Maman” or “Shall I tell you, Mother?”. For years, people believed famed composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the tune, but that has since been disproven, and its origins remain shrouded in mystery. The lyrics, however, are a little easier to track. For example, “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” gets its lines from an 1806 poem by Jane Taylor in her book “Rhymes for the Nursery” while “Baa Baa Black Sheep” is about a 13th-century wool tax.
The correct answer to this quiz is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.