Summer Night

Written for: Stars Over Broadway (1935); Colleen (1936); Sing Me A Love Song (1937)
Performer: NONE (not used) (SOB); Dick Powell (humming) & Studio Orchestra (C); James Melton & Studio Chorus (SMALS)
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1935, 1936
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons/Remick Music Corp.

Verse 1:

Why am I so jealous of the moon,
Jealous of a summer night in June?
Why can they remain beside my darling,
While I must leave so soon?

Chorus:

Summer night, starry skies,
You can see my sweetheart with a thousand eyes;
Why have I only two to behold a thousand charms I idolize?
Summer night, you've a right
To come in her window when the day is through;
She tells you all her thoughts in the fading candle light,
Summer night, oh, how I envy you.

Verse 2 (from Argentinean version):

How is it when we both kiss adieu,
I see the moon with his eye on you?
He can gaze on you while I am absent,
Maybe he's jealous, too;

[Chorus]