Shine On, Harvest Moon lyrics – music by Nora Bayes, lyrics by Jack Norworth
Shine On Harvest Moon has been featured in dozens of movies, including I’ll See You In My Dreams as well as (obviously) Shine On Harvest Moon, Along Came Ruth, The Great Ziegfeld. Laurel and Hardy performed a song-and-dance routine in The Flying Deuces, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Eddy Duchin Story, and Pennies from Heaven. The song was featured in the 2013 video game BioShock Infinite. And Gidney and Cloyd the Moon creatures performed the first line of the refrain on an episode of Rocky and His Friends in 1959–60.
Shine On, Harvest Moon
January, February, June, or July
I said January, February, June, or July
Shine on, shine on harvest moon up in the sky
I ain’t had no lovin’ since January, February, June, or
July ah ah aha
Snow time ain’t no time to sit outdoors and spoon
So Shine on, shine on harvest moon for me ‘n’ my gal
Monologue:
So, shine on, shine on harvest moon w up in the sky.
I ain’t had no lovin’ since January, February, June, and
July?
Now, looka here a don’t you know better than to set out
There in the snow ‘n’ spoon?
C’mon, I don’t want no half moon, I want a full moon.
Oh, won’t you shine on, shine on harvest moon(shine on,
Shine on)
Up in the sky? (shine on)
I ain’t had no lovin’ since January, February, June, or
July
(Ah-ooba, ah-ooba, ah-ooba, ah-ooh)
Don’t you know you’re gonna freeze to death
Settin’ out there in the snow tryin’ to spoon?
So shine on, shine on harvest moon for me ‘n’ my gal
Yeah!