"I've Told Every Little Star" is a typical composition with
music by Richard Rodgers and
words by Oscar Hammerstein III,
in that Rodgers handed a wordless tune to Hammerstein,
and Hammerstein was to come up with words to the tune.

On this occasion, Rodgers claimed, so this became anecdotal,
that a songbird had inspired the melody.
Didn't say which songbird.

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and Hammerstein delivered the goods, lamenting afterwards that this was
one of the tougher assignments Rodgers had ever given him:

"...I wished that bird had kept his big mouth shut."