I heard this (the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star variations, or as they are properly known, "Ah, vous dirai-je maman* variations, K. 265" by Mozart on KING-fm right now.

(*which was apparently a sort of borderline-bawdy song, about a late-teenaged girl who confided to her mother that she was very nearly - or in some versions, was in actual fact - seduced by a man)

That's it - that's the kind of thing I want to be able to play eventually. To be able to play things that are light and amusing to me. (I actually - years and years ago, when I was first taking lessons - noodled around a little bit trying to play parts of this by ear).

I wonder how hard they are to play? I wonder if they're something I could work up to fairly soon?

Oh, and for the Latin fans in my audience, I present a Latin translation (found on Wikipedia so don't fault me if it's wrong) of Twinkle Twinkle:

Mica, mica, parva stella,
Miror quaenam sis tam bella.
Super terra in caelo,
Alba gemma splendido.
Mica, mica, parva stella,
Miror quaenam sis tam bella.