Jes' 'Cause The Moon Was Shinin' 1902 Kerker

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 17 July 2010
2010

Started one night, feeling quite bright,
Out to call on little Miss Amandy;
She ain't my gal, b'longs to my pal,
But she lives around the corner handy;
Night it was fine for singin' and talk,
So I suggested:
"Let's go for a walk."
She is a peach, she certainly is,
But she ain't mine, she's his!
Strolled in the lane,
in the shade of the trees,
And now and again
Mandy's waist I would squeeze,
For there isn't no harm
in de grasp of an arm,
And I even admit,
it has rather a charm,
O, I just was observin'
a kiss was allowed,
When old Mistah Moon come
from under a cloud,
An' jes' at dat moment
up comes my pal,
an done cotched me wid his gal: Wow!

Jes 'cause the moon was shinin'
Dat dog he saw me,
Began to jaw me,
Dat rascal spoiled dem cloes
I looked fine in,
I ain't no luck when
de moon am shinin'

Jes 'cause the moon was shinin'
Dat dog he saw me,
Began to jaw me,
Dat rascal spoiled dem cloes
I looked fine in,
I ain't no luck when
de moon am shinin'

Started one night, dark of the moon,
Out to get a first class chicken dinner;
Reckon I knew just where to go,
Wid me skill I surely am a winner;
'Long down the road,
Is shadows so deep,
Still as a 'possum playing off asleep,
I knew de way to 'complish my ends,
When I goes out for hens!
Sneaked down the path
at the end of the road,
To do back of dat old Farmer Hawkin's abode,
Right into de shed I was pokin' my head,
For de Farmer, I thought, was asleep in his bed,
O, I grabbed two fine birds,
an' was scootin' away,
When old Mistah Moon
he come out bright as day,
De farmer's big bulldog
he done see his chance
for a grabbin' me by de pants: Wow!

Jes 'cause the moon was shinin'
Dat dog he saw me,
Began to jaw me,
Dat rascal spoiled dem cloes
I looked fine in,
I ain't no luck when
de moon am shinin'

Jes 'cause the moon was shinin'
Dat dog he saw me,
Began to jaw me,
Dat rascal spoiled dem cloes
I looked fine in,
I ain't no luck when
de moon am shinin'

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Jes' 'Cause The Moon Was Shinin' 1902 Kerker
Music by Gustave Kerker
Lyrics by Harry B.Smith
© MCMII by Sol Bloom, New York & Chicago.
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From "The Billionaire" 1902
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 17 July 2010 at 17.27
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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