(There Ought To Be A)
A popular song from 1931
Words and music by Irving Kahal and Harry Richman
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Birdies fly with new ambition
Spring is in their song
Soon you’ll find yourself a-wishin’
Days were not so long
If my thought is not defined
Listen while I speak my mind
Chorus
There ought to be a moonlight saving time
So I could love that girl of mine
Until the birdies wake and chime
“Good morning”
Their ought to be a law in clover time
To keep that moon out overtime
To keep each lover’s lane in rhyme till dawning
You’d better hurry up, hurry up
Hurry up, get busy today
You’d better croon a tune, croon a tune
To the man up in the Moon
And here’s what I’d say
There ought to be a moonlight saving time
So I could love that girl of mine
Until the birdies wake and chime
“Good morning”
- When the weather man is sleeping
With the gay sunbeams
To his housetop I’ll go creeping
In the land of dreams
When the tardy moon comes out
I’ll stand there and bravely shout