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Moonlight Bay Lyrics

Artist: Doris Day
Album: Moonlight Bay

Moonlight Bay
Doris Day
Words by Edward Madden
Music by Percy Weinrich

This version did not chart but
In 1912 it was charted by The American Quartet (#1) and Dolly Connolly (#3)
Later, Bing Crosby and his son Gary out it at # 14 in 1951

(Sailing through the moonlight, sailing on the bay)

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

(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)

We were sailing along on Moonlight Bay
We could hear the voices ringing
They seemed to say
"You have stolen her heart" (You have stolen her heart)
"Now don't go 'way"
As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay
(Sailing through the moonlight on Moonlight Bay)

Comments/Interpretations
by Jim on 5/24/2008 9:31pm When I was kid in the 1940s my grandparants used to sing this and other songs from the turn of the century. Lot of folks from the neighbor hood would gather and sing along. What a great time.
by Shamma Amatullah Azmi on 6/11/2008 3:28pm I sometimes think I was born in the wrong era. I love these old songs....mainly because i can understand what they are saying. Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Vera Lynn, Elvis, Nat King Cole and Dean Martin are my favourite singers. I especially love this song and 'anything you can do I can do better'.
by olecountrygirl on 6/21/2008 2:18pm thats not the correct lyrics to that song where it says "voices" its not "voices" its "darkies" . No prejudice meant but that is the correct lyric.
by Liz on 7/6/2008 1:42pm Thank you olecountrygirl! I was singing this song the other day for some reason, and I sang it "you can hear the darkies singing..." and my husband said that CAN'T be the right words, and I said, that is how I remember it, hearing it as a kid, in NYC! No prejudice meant either! Glad to know I still have some correct memory!
by Maggie on 7/16/2008 10:21pm We just saw a movie with Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell and the Tommy Dorsey band with Frank Sinatra and the last number was "Moonlight Bay" with Eleanor Powell dancing and a chorus singing. Sure enough they definitely did say "darkies"! That's why I sought out this site to see if I'd heard right.In a previous Skelton-Powell movie there was a separate scene with all the black stars, Lena Horne and Hazel Scott .It had nothing to do with the plaot. In those days black actors could be seen with white ones only if they were depicting servants or some other subordinate people. I guess things are better these days, at least in some ways!
by Melrose Park on 7/17/2008 9:57pm Turner Classic Movies hasn't scrubbed the lyrics (yet). I just heard the version of "On Moonlight Bay" that goes, "We could hear the darkies singing" in the movie "Ship Ahoy" (1942)starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell. It is sung in a musical/dance number near the end of the movie. Interestingly, Frank Sinatra sings a part of the song, although it is the chorus that sings about the "darkies". Also in the movie are Tommy Dorsey & his band and Bert Lahr (as in the Cowardly Lion of Oz), but I digress... I just checked NetFlix. They don't have "Ship Ahoy". Scrubbed? To tell you the truth, this is getting a little scary!
by Melrose Park on 7/17/2008 10:04pm Transcribed from the movie "Ship Ahoy" (1942) Chorus: We were sailing along, On Moonlight Bay. We could hear the darkies singing, 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. Sinatra: Voices hum, Crooning over Moonlight Bay. Banjos strum, Tuning while the moonbeams play. All alone, alone they find me. Memories like these remind me, Of the girl I left behind me, Down on Moonlight Bay.
by Bob Cotsobilionis on 8/30/2008 4:18pm From curiosity, I downloaded an MP3 from Amazon containing a remastered 1912 Edison wax cylinder recording of this song by the American Quartet. The 1912 version definitely says "voices". Perhaps the lyrics were modified for the movie?
by John on 10/17/2008 7:25am Same to me Shamma.... I also think I was born in the wrong era.... I also like the beatles when they sing this song at morecambe and wise show... that was great
by Z Blair on 10/20/2008 9:22pm I was thinking about my late mother and how much she loved this song. I was remembering her singing this which brought me here. Great memories.
by Ruth C. 12//18/2008 on 12/18/2008 10:04am We STILL (at 82&85) sing this song in a 'band' at our Senior Center...YES! a GREATER time in history, and we feel blessed to have lived it!
by dr.rom on 1/16/2009 9:00pm I love this song... just watched astro hallmark channel movie 'the king and queen of...' dr.ramlah@yahoo.com
by Margaret on 2/28/2009 4:56pm I've heard that song from Another Froggy Evening. It was sung by Michigan J. Frog in that cartoon.
by Josh Phatz on 3/20/2009 11:40am This song is tight yo.
by Cindy C on 4/11/2009 3:21pm I miss these old songs. I can remember Moon Light Bay from one of my Grandma song books in 1961. Also other favorite was "off we go into the wild blue yonder"
by MEG on 9/15/2009 12:19am I remember a handsome young man I met at work (with striking red curly hair.)I was swept off my feet. I remember his tender kiss and the gentlemanly way in which he sensitively respected my age, and my innocense. Truly, he was a gentleman.I look back today with fondness for that precious time and the few dates we shared following the moonlit night that strolled around LK Harriet. My school girl crush and the memory of that time as a naive 16 year old girl remains,to this day a very sweet and tender memory.

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