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Shine On Harvest Moon

File:shinharv.nwc (November 2000) 3 kB
Full name of work:Shine On Harvest Moon
Composer:Bayes, Nora
About:http://www.nyu.edu/projects/daley/history/bayes.html
Lyricist:Jack Norworth
First line:The night was mighty dark so you could hardly see, for the moon refused to shine.
Music category:Song, Vaudeville
Instruments:Piano solo, Voice
Name of file creator:Christopher Barham
e-mail address:cbarham "at" pobox "dot" com
Running time:1:43
Comments:Apparently from a musical around the turn of the century. Famous in the U.K. as the theme music from the early 1980's T.V. comedy of the same name.
This version came from a second hand sheet music store in Edinburgh U.K, Westport books.

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