31 Days of Summer, Day 24: Sail along on “Moonlight Bay”
This very popular song of 1912 has been sung in many, many movies, even Looney Tunes cartoons. Many people recognize the chorus, but the verses are more obscure. A bit more romantic than today’s “I know you wanna be my main chick,” dontcha think?
- Voices hum, crooning over Moonlight Bay
- Banjos strum, tuning while the moonbeams play
- All alone, unknown they find me
- Memories like these remind me
- Of the girl I left behind me
- Down on Moonlight Bay
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- We were sailing along
- On Moonlight Bay
- We could hear the voices ringing
- They seemed to say:
- “You have stolen her heart”
- “Now don’t go ‘way!”
- As we sang love’s old sweet song
- On Moonlight Bay
Candle lights gleaming on the silent shore
- Lonely nights, dreaming till we meet once more
- Far apart, her heart, is yearning
- With a sigh for my returning
- With the light of love still burning
- As in of days of yore
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- We were sailing along
- On Moonlight Bay
- We could hear the voices ringing
- They seemed to say:
- “You have stolen her heart”
- “Now don’t go ‘way!”
- As we sang love’s old sweet song
- On Moonlight Bay
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