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Moonlight Serenade

Words by Mitchell Parish, Music by Glenn Miller - 1939

Top Ten hit on the U.S. pop charts in 1939, reaching number three on the Billboard charts for fifteen weeks.

Chorus:
F6	Abdim	Gm7	Cdim          C7   C+
F	-	Fmaj7         F7	D7             Gm
F    Edim                 F	Gm   Gdim            Gm	C7             C+	F     (C+  repeat chorus)
Bridge:
Bbmaj7	Bbm6	Em7           A7	Cm6           D+
Dm6            E7	Dm6         E7	Cm6          D7	Gm7   C7 (to chorus)

8-beat intro. Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

Play: Chorus, Chorus, Bridge, Chorus.

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Chorus:

I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight,
I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night,
The roses are sighing a Moonlight Serenade.

 

The stars are aglow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming.
My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and sing you a Moonlight Serenade.

 

Bridge:

Let us stray 'till break of day in love's valley of dreams,
Just you and I, a summer sky, a heavenly breeze kissing the trees.

 

Chorus:

So don't let me wait, come to me tenderly in the June night,
I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight,
A love song, my darling, a Moonlight Serenade.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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