The Moon Shines On The Moonshine 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 8 Apr 2010
2010

The mahogany is dusty
all the pipes are very rusty,
and the good old fashioned musty
doesn't musty any more;
All the stuff got bum and bummer,
from the middle of the summer,
now the bar is on the hummer,
and "For Rent" is on the door:

How sad and still tonight
by the old distillery!
And how the cobwebs cob
in its old machinery!
But in the mountain tops,
far from the eyes of cops,
Oh! how the moon shines
on the moonshine so merrily!

How sad and still tonight
by the old distillery!
And how the mourners mourn,
by the Lager Brewery!
So, Mister, if you please,
Don't let nobody sneeze,
up where the moon shines
on the moonshine so stillily!

Goodness me, how mis'ry doubles!
Ain't one thing to use for bubbles,
for to drown away your troubles,
now the tide has gone and went;
Days and nights are getting bleaker,
shiv'ring for an oldtime sneaker,
even water's getting weaker
'bout one tenth of one percent:

How sad and still tonight
by the old distillery!
And how the cobwebs cob
in its old machinery!
But in the mountain tops,
far from the eyes of cops,
Oh! how the moon shines
on the moonshine so merrily!

How sad and still tonight
by the old distillery!
And how the mourners mourn,
by the Lager Brewery!
So, Mister, if you please,
Don't let nobody sneeze,
up where the moon shines
on the moonshine so stillily!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Moon Shines On The Moonshine 1920
Music by Robin Hood Bowers
Lyrics by Francis de Witt
© MCMXX by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.  New York
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Sung with sensational success by Bert Williams
in The Ziegfeld Follies of 1920
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 8 April 2010 at 17.11
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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