The only difference is that Mum sang "Goodnight gentle moon" not Mr. I can't remember the tune very well and tried to download it, but it won't work for me. Thanks for the memories. You can find our recorging here: I can't remember the version that he used to sing and can only vaguely remember the tune which saddens me, but thanks to this site Iv deffinatly come close to re-discovering. It's strange how Goodnight Mr moon seems to have been forgotten about, perhaps it was a lullaby from my grandfathers generation, perhaps something related to the war?
Would be so interesting to find out more about it before the lullaby dies out completley. My grandpa was from northamptonshire and was a policeman. If somebody knows more about the history of Goodnight Mr Moon, please share!! Mr Moon that gives us light Throught the long and stary night will you kindly, tell me pray where you go to in the day? In your stary nest Do you every rest? Good night Mr Moon we shall have to go and leave you but when,we're asleep through the window pain you'll peep i'll wake up and call out thanks very one, its been lovely listening to some many similar stories.
Good night Mr Moon. We to thought she just made it up and are thrilled to know its actually a real song. We want it x. I'm 17 now, but my nan is now 89, and loosing her memory of the song. I also lost my great uncle, my nan's brother to Altziemers and its complications two years ago.
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I want to abe able to sing this to my children, when I have them. I'm from Sandwell, in the West Midlands. Thank you all for sharing xoxoxoxo. But then she was probably half-remembering it and half making it up.
Probably why I write songs now: Even now I can't sing it without getting choked up, as it's virtually the first song I ever heard, and I can still hear my mum singing it. She died in , but her voice, and the words, are firmly implanted in my memory.
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I sang it to my children, and now my daughter sings it to hers. My mum's version is: Moon, I am going for to leave you. Moon, come again and see me soon. And when you're asleep, through the window-pane I'll peep, And call out, and cry out, Goodnight, Mr. Sorry, but I'm blubbing as I write it! My granddad used to sing it to us when we were children.
In his version, the lyrics are: Moon, we will have to go and leave you, Goodnight, Mr.
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Moon, we will have to leave you soon. And when we're asleep, through the window pane you'll peep, We'll wake up and call out, goodnight Mr. He only ever sang it to us a capella, but I could imagine what the accompaniment sounded like to me. My mum and I are singing this, as we do so often especially on the full moon!!! When we recorded this on our video camera, we never meant it to be published, but hope you enjoy.
Our link is http: He used to sing the chorus to 'Goodnight Mr Moon' to me and then my children, as well as the chorus to 'Hush! Here comes the Dream Man' which was written in I suspect that both of them were sung to him as a child, which would account for why he only remembered the choruses.
I have been searching for all the words to 'Goodnight Mr Moon' for some time. I need the tune to the verse as well. If any one who has posted a long version would sing it for us it would help a lot! There were girls from all over the world at the school so I would imagine it's sung far and wide - the two girls I met up with at a reunion a couple of years ago both sang it to their children.
I sang it to my three boys who are now men, to the children I looked after as a childminder and we're applying to foster children now so hopefully I'll be singing it again! I only sang that first verse, I don't recall any other words I can't get your link to work on my ancient computer! Thanks for the memories! My granddad used to sing this to me when I was a little girl, I have one memory of him singing it to settle me to sleep when we were on our way home from holiday one year - all squashed in the back of my dad's mini Such a simple refrain, and yet it's loaded with such precious memories for us and now hopefully our kids too Until now i could only remember the first line.
We have loved this song for a very long time. We have uploaded the song to our website: It was not intended for publishing, so please excuse the rawness of it - Mum and I were just having fun.
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We are combining all the words to the song and will be posting them here soon. We are also documenting the history that comes with this song. I hope we can have everyone's permission to do this. We really appreciate everyone's input into this.
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We are also trying very hard to find the original music sheets and the writer of the song - will keep looking. Thanks to you all. She is 93 years old! I will phone her tomorrow to ask if she knows any more detail about the song.. She lives in Whitehead , N. Has any one found any more information about this song?
I have read through the threads and some were hoping to give more info Looking forward to your updates. This is a real song and someone must know who wrote this, or who performed this and when. We have searched the internet, libraries, second hand shops and any other avenue to try and find the sheet music to this Thank you all again for your help. Quincy Jones recorded it in on his second album, Go West, Man! From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Top Pop Records Archived from the original on Jazz ath the Philharmonic series". Retrieved from " https: I remember this song being sung by a girl in a talent contest in the parish hall of a small village called Heage in Derbyshire, England.
It was in , not long after the end of the War, and there were Italian P. It was sung very badly and I have often wondered since what they thought of it. I've never heard it sung again. I thought it was an American popular ballad of the time but, obviously, it goes back much further. Pauline, thanks for sharing that interesting memory.
You must have liked the song to have only heard it once yet still remember it all these years later. My grandmother sang this song to me as a child and I now sing it to my children and God babies However, I heard my grandmother sing this song with different words. When I asked her about it, she said that her older sister sang it to her- both versions- one similar to the one above and one about the sun, with no mention of a man with a gun or being scared. However, she said that her sister told her that the moon was the important version.
I asked her if she knew how her sister knew the song and she said that her mother would often sing it as she was hanging the wash. One time I heard him and asked how come he never sang it when my Nana sang it, he said that his parents told him it wasn't a song for everyone. Now, that I am an adult and a Family Historian and nearly certified genealogist, I believe that this song was around long before any school or what have you was given credit for it'd creation Based on all the info I've been able to gather, it seems that the version above was meant to be an all clear, get going and don't look back song.
The version with the sun would have been sung when it was not safe up make a run for it, whatever the reason or case may have been.
Kimberly, thank you for your comment and the information regarding your family history with the song and "Mr. I'm glad to hear you're continuing to pass the song down to the next generation. My mom sang it to me and told me that it was sung to her and her grandmother sang it to her mother as well. They all said it was a song about an escaped slave on the run. My grandfather sang this to his children and us grandchildren, using the same or nearly the same lyrics I can't see any differences. The only different lyric was instead of "talk about your shining" it was "spread your silver light on".
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I love thinking back on his deep voice singing the beautiful words of that song, comforting us kids around a Bonfire.