Winken, Blinken and Nod - The Cricket Creek Players

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"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a popular poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was Dutch Lullaby.

The poem is a fantasy bed-time story of three children sailing and fishing in the stars. Their boat is a wooden shoe. The little fishermen symbolize a sleepy child's blinking eyes and nodding head.

Its lyrical structure has availed itself to musicians: Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin the American pianist and composer wrote a piano setting, and musical versions have been recorded by The Big 3 featuring Cass Elliot (1963), the Simon Sisters (1964), the Ivy League Trio (1964), The Irish Rovers on their album The Life of the Rover (1969), by Donovan on his children's album H.M.S. Donovan (1971), by Roger Whittaker on his children's album "The Magical World of Roger Whittaker" (1975) by Buffy Saint-Marie who sang a version on Sesame Street in 1975, and on her album Sweet America (1976), by Fred Penner on his children's album The Cat Came Back (1979) and by The Doobie Brothers (1981).
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