When the Moon Shines Bright On Charlie Chaplin

A popular song from 1916.
Words by Thurland Chattaway & Edward Stanning.
Music is the tune of “Red Wing” by Kerry Mills.

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. You’ve sung of the Boys in Blue
   You’ve sung of their girls so true
   You’ve marched to the strain
   Of the well-known refrain
   Of “Who’s Your Lady Friend” and “Tipperary”, too
   Our Tommies so brave and strong
   Have sung ev’ry kind of song
   But what is the lay they’re singing today
   As they go marching along?

Chorus
“When the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin
His boots are cracking for want of blacking
And his little baggy trousers they want mending
Before we send him to the Dardenelles”

2. Some day there will come the time
   To “Wind up the Watch on the Rhine”
   And Tommy and Jack will come marching back
   And take a cup for the sake of “Auld Lang Syne”
   But ere that happy day
   The Germans have got to pay
   When we march in to captured Berlin
   We’ll sing them this little lay

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