A popular song from 1920
Words by Francis DeWitt
Music by Robert Hood Bowers
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- The mahogany is dusty
All the pipes are very rusty
And the good old fashioned “musty”
Doesn’t musty any more
All the stuff got bum and bummer
From the middle of the Summer
Now the bar is “on the hummer”
And “For Rent” is on the door
Refrain:
How sad and still tonight
By the old distillery
And how the cobwebs cob
In In its old machinery
But in the mountain tops
Far from the eyes of cops
Oh! how the moon shines
On the moonshine so merrily
- Goodness me, how misery doubles
Ain’t one thing to use for bubbles
For to drown away your troubles
Now the tide has gone and went
Days and nights are getting bleaker
Shivering for an old time sneaker
Even water’s getting weaker
‘Bout one tenth of one percent
Refrain:
How sad and still tonight
By the old distillery
And how the moaners mourn
By the Lager Brewery
So, mister, if you please
Don’t let nobody sneeze
Up where the moon shines
On the moonshine so stillily
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: