A popular song from 1913
Words and music by George L. Cobb
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Silvery moon is shining down in Tennessee
Far away
There’s a place I’m longing for and want to be
Night and day
Pretty little maiden waiting, waiting there for me
And I’m going back and sing to her
This loving melody
Chorus:
Under the silvery moon, dear
Under the silvery moon
When the stars are shining way up in the sky
It’s just the time to spoon
Softly the banjos are strummin’
Playin’ a Dixieland tune
Oh! how I long to be way down in Tennessee
Under the silvery moon
2. Frosty time is passing and the summer’s here
Loving time
Singing in the twilight with my honey near
Joy sublime
Wedding bells are chiming, chiming
We’ll be married soon
Every evening time I’ll croon this tune
Beneath the silvery moon
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: