Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_2037-Moonlight-bay
https://archive.org/details/78_moonlight-bay_american-quartet-madden-wenrich_gbia0013549a
https://archive.org/details/78_moonlight-bay_ames-brothers-edward-madden-percy-wenrich_gbia0019182a
https://archive.org/details/78_moonlight-bay_bing-and-gary-crosby-matty-matlocks-all-stars-edward-madden-percy-we_gbia0029625a
https://archive.org/details/78_moonlight-bay_brad-reynolds-irving-miller-madden-wenrich_gbia0004742b
https://archive.org/details/78_moonlight-bay_claude-thornhill-and-his-orchestra-madden-wenrich-the-snowflakes_gbia0017482b
https://archive.org/details/78_moonlight-bay_glenn-miller-and-his-orchestra-percy-wenrich-edward-madden_gbia0013005b
https://archive.org/details/78_moonlight-bay_madden-wenrich-dixieland-four_gbia0000009a
Publication Date
1912
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Voices hum, crooning over Moonlight Bay,
Banjos strum, tuning while the moon beams play.
All alone, unknown they find me
Memories like these remind me
Of the girl I left behind me,
Down on Moonlight Bay.
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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 days of yore.
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Madden, Edward and Wenrich, Percy, "Moonlight Bay" (1912). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1435.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1435
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Comments
MacIntosh Collection
New York: Jerome H. Remick Co., (1912)
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