https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvnJfmLJlHI
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