"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889.

The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe.

The old moon laughed and sang a song, as they rocked in the wooden shoe, And the wind that sped them all night long ruffled the waves of dew.

All night long their nets they threw to the stars in the twinkling foam — Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe, bringing the fishermen home; 'Twas all so pretty a sail, it seemed as if it could not be, And some folks thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed of sailing that beautiful sea — But I shall name you the fishermen three: Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.

Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes, and Nod is a little head, And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies is a wee one's trundle-bed.

Appearing on their debut album Meet the Simon Sisters (1964), the song became a minor hit for the duo, reaching No.

[10] Buffy Saint-Marie wrote and sang a version on Sesame Street in 1975, and on her album Sweet America (1976).