by Edwin » Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:19 pm
"By The Light of the Silvery Moon" dates back to 1909! It was used in a movie just after WWI, and then Doris Day and Gordon MacRae redit that movie in 1953. There is a lot of romance in this movie. The younger brother's piano teacher was dating Doris in a kind of friendly agreement between her and her real boy friend who was off at war. When he came home there was some competition as the piano teacher still wanted her, but she was spoken for by the young man out of the army. It was friendly and honest and very funny. I found the lyrics that Doris Day used in the Movie:
Songwriters: MADDEN, EDWARD / EDWARDS, GUS
By the light of the silvery moon
I want to spoon
To my honey I'll croon love's tune
Honey moon, keep a-shinin' in June
Your silv'ry beams will bring love's dreams
We'll be cuddlin' soon
By the silvery moon
Place - park, scene - dark
Silv'ry moon is shining through the trees
Cast - two, me - you
Summer kisses floating on the breeze
Act one, be done
Dialog - where would ya like to spoon?
My cue, with you
Underneath the silv'ry moon
By the light of the silvery moon
I wanna spoon
To my honey I'll croon love's tune
Honey moon, keep a-shinin' in June
Your silv'ry beams will bring love's dreams
We'll be cuddlin' soon by the silvery moon
Act two, Scene - new
Roses blooming all around the place
Cast - three, You - me
Preacher with a solemn-looking face
Choir sings, bell rings
Preacher: You are wed forever more
Act two, all though
Every night the same encore
By the light, not the dark but the light
Of the silvery moon, not the sun but the moon
I wanna spoon, not croon, but spoon
To my honey I'll croon love's tune
Honeymoon, honey moon, honey moon
Keep a-shinin' in June
Your silv'ry beams will bring love's dreams
We'll be cuddlin' soon
By the silvery moon
The silv'ry moon...