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I have noticed for some time we had all these bluegrass songs on the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star lullaby page - incl. the originals we set, and it's eaten at me that something wasn't right. After further investigation, the only commonality between them is the name.. It's a traditional fiddle tune called "Twinkle Little Star" (even though the 1929 recording said Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and so did Bob Wills')
I created a Work for the fiddle tune (I named it Twinkle Little Star to eliminate further confusion and it's only an instrumental) and moved most of them. I went through each one remaining on the Lullaby song page and I believe only 3 more need to be moved, I filed error reports and sent to Thom so he could just move all of them. One was by Willie Nelson.
In general, if you run across a bluegrass instrumental that says "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" it's highly likely it isn't related to the lullaby. The fiddle tune has no words so if you hear words it's in the wrong bucket.
It's all very confusing because both songs will typically be credited to "Traditional" so it makes one think these bluegrass instrumentals are just covers of the song we all know, but they aren't.
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Mark
