This song was written for the 1947 Broadway musical Finian’s Rainbow, in which a Kentucky sharecropper and an Irishwoman become distracted from their search for leprechaun gold by each other.
(Spoken intro)
[WOODY]
We got our legends, too, you know. Notice anything peculiar goin' on? They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love if there is moonlight all about and there's no moon above
[SHARON]
I wonder who thought that one up?
[WOODY]
I did
(Verse 1)
[WOODY]
I look at you and suddenly
Something in your eyes I see
Soon begins bewitching me
(Chorus 1)
[WOODY]
It's that old devil moon
That you stole from the skies
It's that old devil moon
In your eyes
You and your glance
Make this romance
Too hot to handle
Stars in the night
Blazing their light
Can't hold a candle
To your razzle-dazzle
You've got me flyin' high and wide
On a magic carpet ride
Full of butterflies inside
Wanna cry, wanna croon
Wanna laugh like a loon
It's that old devil moon
In your eyes
Just when I think
I'm free as a dove
Old devil moon
Deep in your eyes
Blinds me with love
(Spoken interlude)
[SHARON]
You know, Mister Mahoney, that old devil moon, it's in your eyes, too
[WOODY]
It is?
[SHARON]
It takes two to make a valley legend
(Verse 2)
[SHARON]
I look at you and glory be
Something in your eyes I see
Soon begins bewitching me
(Chorus 2)
[SHARON]
It's that old devil moon
That you stole from the skies
It's that old devil moon
In your eyes
You and your glance
Make this romance
Too hot to handle
Stars in the night
Blazing their light
Can't hold a candle
To your razzle-dazzle
You've got me flyin' high and wide
On a magic carpet ride
Full of butterflies inside
[SHARON AND WOODY]
Wanna cry, wanna croon
Wanna laugh like a loon
It's that old devil moon
In your eyes
[SHARON]
Just when I think
I'm free as a dove
[SHARON AND WOODY]
Old devil moon
Deep in your eyes
Blinds me with love
Old Devil Moon was written by E. Y. Harburg & Burton Lane.
Burton Lane released Old Devil Moon on Fri Jan 10 1947.