Lyr Req: Is the Blue Moon Still Shining (M Monroe)

Subject: Lyrics: Is the Blue Moon Still Shining
From:
Date: 16 Dec 96 - 10:35 AM

I'm looking for the lyrics to the Bill Monroe song Is the Blue Moon Still Shining. Thanks in advance for any help.

Subject: Lyr Add: IS THE BLUE MOON STILL SHINING? (Monroe)
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Date: 03 Sep 01 - 10:21 AM

Is The Blue Moon Still Shining?
Melissa Monroe

Is the blue moon still shining?
Does it shine for you just like it shines for me
Will the blue moon bring us back together?
Or will it leave us with the sad memory?
 
REFRAIN:
Do we think of each other when the moon is blue?
Do you need me as I need you?
Will you ever come back and love me?
Or tell me are we really through?
 
At the night when the blue moon is shining
I think of you and the plans that we made
But now you've gone and left me
Left me alone and also I pray.
 
I wonder is the blue moon still shining
Does it shine for you just like it shines for me?
Are you too proud to come back?
Or did you really want to be free?

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Is the Blue Moon Still Shining
From: GUEST,Tim Ausburn
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 11:13 AM

Melissa, Bill Monroe's daughter, wrote this song. Monroe had a good record on it and a few years ago, Laurie Lewis did a fine recording.

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Is the Blue Moon Still Shining
From:
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 04:27 PM

Excellent information. Much appreciated, Tim.

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Is the Blue Moon Still Shining
From: masato sakurai
Date: 15 Sep 01 - 09:45 PM

More information on Melissa. The following is quoted from Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, by Richard D. Smith (Little Brown, 2000, pp. 266-7):

Sometimes Bill was joined at the Belle Cove by a female vocalist--his daughter Melissa. The finality of the divorce between her parents had been difficult for her, and the tours with her father in 1963 and 1964 rare ventures into the outside world. After her mother died, she became even more withdrawn. When Bill brought her to dinner or to sing with him at the Belle Cove, she brightened up, and her fine, strong voice was in evidence. But her performances of her popular composition "Is the Blue Moon Still Shining?" took on an extra pathos because it was clear that her own life had little radience. Melissa was a dark-eyed, lovely, pleasant young lady but noticeably fragile, not in good health. Her father was very protective of her.
Melissa's health declined. She ate poorly, gained a great deal of weight, and developed diabetes. On September 27, 1990, she was admitted to Hendersonville Hospital with heart and kidney problems. She was soon moved to the Hillhaven Nursing Home in Hendersonville, where she died on December 3 at age fifty-four.

Masato

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Is the Blue Moon Still Shining
From:
Date: 16 Sep 01 - 12:03 AM

Thanks for the great information. It's wonderful to get details such as this. Even with such a tragic outcome.

Subject: RE: Lyrics: Is the Blue Moon Still Shining
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 02:20 AM

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