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!
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