Blue Moon

Blue Moon
music by Richard Rodgers (left)
lyric by Lorenz Hart (right)

Once upon a time, before I took up smiling, I hated the moonlight!
Shadows of the night that poets find beguiling seemed as flat as the moonlight.
With no one to stay up for I went to sleep at ten.
Life was a bitter cup for the saddest of all men...

Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for,
You heard me saying a prayer for someone I really could care for.

And then there suddenly appeared before me, the only one my arms could ever hold.
I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me."
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold!

Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.

Once upon a time, my heart was just an organ.
My life had no mission.
Now that I have you, to be as rich as Morgan is my one ambition.
Once I awoke at seven, hating the morning light.
Now I awake in Heaven and all the world's all right...

Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for, you heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for.

And then there suddenly appeared before me, the only one my arms could ever hold.
I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me."
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold!

Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone, without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own...