IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON
I never feel a thing is real
When I'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place
A bubble for a minute
You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it
Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade
It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phoney as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
(Billy Rose / Harold Arlen /E. Y. "Yip" Harburg)
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- It's Only A Paper Moon
- ~Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike
(Harburg / Rose / Arlen) - It's Only a Paper Moon
- Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
Vocal refrain by Peggy Healy
(Harburg / Rose / Arlen)
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TRIVIA...
- Published in 1933, "It's Only a Paper Moon" is a popular song written by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and Billy Rose[1]. It was written originally for an unsuccessful broadway play called The Great Magoo, set in Coney Island. It was subsequently used in the movie Take a Chance, later in 1933. But its lasting fame stems from a series of recordings of the song by popular artists such as the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, the Nat King Cole Trio, and Ella Fitzgerald, and from its use as a vehicle for improvisation by many jazz musicians.
- The song was included in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, which opened in 1947.
- The song lent its title to the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich film Paper Moon and the subsequent television series of the same name.
- The song, with a newly composed counter-melody by Kander and Ebb, is a musical segment in the film Funny Lady, starring Barbra Streisand and James Caan.
- The song was used in the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine in an episode with the same title as the song.
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