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Here's my abridged version of this 100 year-old ditty omitting the secord verse. Silly lyrics
but a catchy melody. Conflicting info on who authored the song as stated below courtesy of wikipedia. Enjoy. - Fret Killer
"Shine On, Harvest Moon" is a popular early-1900s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. It was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley
songs of the era. The song was debuted by Bayes and Norworth in the Ziegfeld Follies of
1908 to great acclaim. It became a pop standard, and continues to be performed and
recorded in the 21st century. During the vaudeville era, songs were often sold outright,
and the purchaser would be credited as the songwriter. John Kenrick's Who's Who in
Musicals credits the song's actual writers as Edward Madden and Gus Edwards. However,
David Ewen's All the Years of American Popular Music credits Dave Stamper, who
contributed songs to 21 editions of the Ziegfeld Follies and was Bayes' pianist from 1903
to 1908.Vaudeville comic Eddie Cantor also credited Stamper in his 1934 book Ziegfeld:
The Great Glorifier.