From the sheet music at York University:


THE MOON SHINES ON THE MOONSHINE
Words by Francis De Witt, music by Robert Hood Bowers, 1920.
"Sung with sensational success by Bert Williams"

1. The mahogany is dusty.
All the pipes are very rusty,
And the good old-fashioned "musty"
Doesn't musty anymore.
All the stuff got bum and bummer
From the middle of the summer.
Now the bar is on the hummer,
And "For Rent" is on the door.

CHORUS: How sad and still tonight,
By the old distillery!
And how the cobwebs cob
In the old machinery!
But in the mountaintops,
Far from the eyes of cops,
Oh, how the moon shines on the moonshine so merrily!

2. Goodness me, how mis'ry doubles!
Ain't one thing to use for bubbles
For to drown away your troubles.
Now the tide has gone and went.
Days and night are getting bleaker,
Shiv'ring for an old time sneaker.
Even water's getting weaker,
'Bout one tenth of one percent.

CHORUS: How sad and still tonight,
By the old distillery!
And how the mourners mourn
By the lager brewery!
So, mister, if you please,
Don't let nobody sneeze
Up where the moon shines on the moonshine so stillily.