GET OUT AND GET UNDER THE MOON

(music by Larry Shay,
words by Charles Tobias & William Jerome,
as adapted by Housetop)


Close up your flat, get out and get under the moon!

What do you do in the evening 
  when you don't know what to do?
Read a book? Play a game? 
  Every night it's just the same
  
What would you say if I tell you 
  how to keep from feeling blue?
My advice is good to take 
  and it's easier to do

	When you're all alone, any old night,
	  and you're feeling out of tune / well just
	Pick up your hat, close up your flat,
	  Get out and get under the moon

	Underneath the bright silvery light
	  You'll be feeling better soon / if you
	Pick up your hat, close up your flat,
	  Get out and get under the moon

		Look, look! Look at the stars above!
		  Look, look! Look at those sweeties love!
		Oh boy, give me a night in 
		  June (I mean it!)

	All you've got to do any old night
	  When you're feeling out of tune / is
	Pick up your hat, close up your flat,
	  Get out and get under the moon

	When you're hanging out at home and you're feeling out of tune
	  Maybe you've spent too much of your time inside [__]
	Well here's a trick you may not have tried, my friend,
	  Get out and get under the moon

	Underneath the shining stars, under Venus and Mars,
	  Underneath the stratosphere if the atmosphere is clear / better
	Pick up your hat, close up your flat,
	  Get out and get under the moon

		You spend too-oo long not getting anywhere
		  Too-oo long breathing this stuffy air
		Too-oo long losing at soli-
		  -taire (you know it)

			When you're all alone on a lovely night in June
			  And you're feeling out of tune, you'll be feeling better soon / if you
			Pick up your hat, and you close up your flat, / and you
			  Get out, get out, get out!
			    (Don't check your email)

			  Get out, get out, get out!
			    (Don't fold your laundry)

			  Get out, get out, get out!
			    (Turn off that TV)

			  Get out and get under that old 
			    moo-oo-oo-oo-oon!

recording: Helen Kane (1928) [YouTube]

recording: Doris Day (1959) [YouTube]

recording: Nat King Cole (1963) [YouTube]

recording: Housetop (2011) [YouTube]