Lyr Req: Ring around the Moon (Melanie)

Subject: Who'll Draw a Ring Around the Moon
From: ositojuanito
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 08:56 AM

Hi

Can anyone help me get the lyric for this lovely nursery rhymme type simple love song. It begins: 'Who'll draw a ring abound the moon, who will draw a line from star to star, who will sing a penny's worth of song to show how much in love we are' or something like that.

John

Subject: Lyr Add: RING AROUND THE MOON (Melanie Safka)
From: rumanci
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 09:10 AM

RING AROUND THE MOON

Who will draw a ring around the moon
Who will draw a line from star to star
Who will sing a penny's worth of song
To tell them how in love we are

I will draw a ring around the moon
I will draw a line from star to star
I will sing a penny's worth of song
To tell them how in love we are


from
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/dj/melanie/lyrics/gatherme.html

Subject: RE: Who'll Draw a Ring Around the Moon
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Oct 06 - 02:40 PM

"I'll put a girdle round about the Earth in forty minutes"


Puck: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Subject: Lyr Req: Who will draw a ring around the moon?
From: GUEST,MollieLynn
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 10:41 PM

Help.

My mother used to sing this song as a round with my 4 siblings and me in the early 70s. She would play the tune with guitar. In the southwestern part of Virginia.

Who will draw a ring around the moon?
Who will draw a line from star to star?
Who will sing a penny's worth a tune to tell you how in love we..e are?

next verse:

I will draw a ring around the moon
I will draw a line from star to star
I will sing a penny's worth a tune to tell you how in love we are.

I'd love to know origin of this little diddy. I have no idea if there is more to it than this.
Thanks
ML

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will draw a ring around the moon?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 10:51 PM

robin (at) robinhopper (dot) com

Try asking at that address. he did it on a CD and likely would know about authorship, etc.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will draw a ring around the moon?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 10:57 PM

Most sites I found with that on it had only that--the two stanzas. There was no attribution on any I saw. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who will draw a ring around the moon?
From: GUEST,Richard
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 12:51 PM

Only version I've heard was by Melanie (she of the Brand New Rollerskates). This was released on one of her albums in the early '70s.

Subject: Lyr Add: RING AROUND THE MOON (Melanie Safka)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 01:31 AM

Apparently she wrote it.


RING AROUND THE MOON
Melanie Safka (known as "Melanie")

Who will draw a ring around the moon?
Who will draw a line from star to star?
Who will sing a penny's worth of song
To tell them how in love we are?

I will draw a ring around the moon.
I will draw a line from star to star.
I will sing a penny's worth of song
To tell them how in love we are.

[From her 1971 album "Gather Me"—and on several subsequent collections.]