"Star Light, Star Bright" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16339. Lyrics The lyrics usually conform to the following: Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight. Origins The superstition of hoping for wishes granted when seeing a shooting or falling star may date back to the ancient world. Wishing on the first star seen may also predate this rhyme, which first began to be recorded in late nineteenth-century America. The song and tradition seem to have reached Britain by the early twentieth century and have since spread worldwide. In popular culture In Film The character Geppetto recites the full poem in the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio, wishing for the titular puppet character to become a real boy. The rhyme appears in full in the 1928 film The Patsy When the character Patricia Harrington, played by Marion Davies, wishes to be "beautiful and seductive". The rhyme was turned into a song in Abbott and Costello's "In the Navy". The character Russ Raymond sang it in the beginning of the movie. The Angel in "The Bishop's Wife" (film, 1947, with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven and Monty Woolley) quotes the first line and tells the Bishop's Wife that she should make a wish. In Richard Scarry's Best Sing-Along Mother Goose Video Ever!, Mother Cat sings "Star Light, Star Bright" to Huckle Cat, then Huckle Cat says the last two lines of the lullaby. The rhyme appears in the 1966 Star Trek (original series) episode The Conscience of the King as a poem "almost as old as the stars themselves". This song is played in Disney Parks Fireworks Shows Wishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams and Remember... Dreams Come True. They also play an exit music for those shows. In Chuck E. Cheese’s Out of this World show tape in 2014, the character Helen Henny recites the full poem in one of her lines. “Star Light, Star Bright” is also found in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part Four on Netflix in the fifth episode of the season. Recited by Sabrina Spellman as she wishes for Sabrina Morningstar's safety. The full poem is quoted in the 1995 animated film "The Pebble and the Penguin". The poem appears as a major plot point of the 2022 animated