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Moonlight Cocktail Lyrics

Artist: Glenn Miller

Moonlight Cocktail
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra
Words by Kim Gannon
Music by Lucky Roberts

#1 from week of February 28, 1942 to week of May 2, 1942

Couple of jiggers of moonlight and add a star,
Pour in the blue of a June night and one guitar,
Mix in a couple of dreamers and there you are:
Lovers hail the Moonlight Cocktail.

Now add a couple of flowers, a drop of dew,
Stir for a couple of hours 'til dreams come true.
Add to the number of kisses, it's up to you.
Moonlight Cocktail - need a few.

Cool it in the summer breeze
Serve it in the starlight underneath the trees.
You'll discover tricks like these
Are sure to make your Moonlight Cocktail please.

Follow the simple directions and they will bring
Life of another complexion where you'll be king.
You will awake in the morning and start to sing
Moonlight Cocktails are the thing.

(Instrumental interlude)

Follow the simple directions and they will bring
Life of another complexion where you'll be king.
You will awake in the morning and start to sing
Moonlight Cocktails are the thing.

Transcribed by Samantha Stevens
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Comments/Interpretations

by Rory on 6/2/2008 3:14am
It is actually "as for the number of kisses, its up to you" not "add to the number of kisses, its up to you"

by Elroy on 3/5/2010 3:12pm
You are absolutely correct Rory.
How well I remember this song and especially the person I sang it to so often

by john mattei on 10/9/2010 11:15am
I believe, the most romantic song ever written.

by artperry on 11/8/2010 11:35pm
Is it "lovers hail the Moonlight Cocktail" or "Lover's ale, the Moonlight Cocktail" ?

by denis on 1/8/2014 9:53am
Ale is no right stuff for dreamers unless they're drunkers.

by donaldduck25 on 4/22/2014 8:58am
Agree with all the gorging - Love this song, remember ALMOST all the words, glad to have some of the gaps filled in.

by Marianne on 9/21/2016 1:23pm
Absolutely the sweetest love song ever!

by Gene the Machine; c. 1943,4,5. on 10/1/2017 5:47pm
Of course, Denis-
you mean "drunkards".
It's o.k., Kiddo;
you mean well -right ?