Our Next-Door Neighbor, The Moon

Our Next-Door Neighbor, The Moon
by Michael Mark & Tom Chapin
© 1998 HCD Music & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Lie on your back and you look up high
At the lantern in the night-time sky.
It’s nice to know that she’s nearby,
Our next-door neighbor, the moon.

Quarter moon, half-moon, full-moon bright,
She’s always ready to lend you light.
She’ll be here tomorrow night,
Our next-door neighbor, the moon.

Ooh, a billion years, a million million eyes
Have gone out in the night to watch the same moonrise.

Once in a while she is lost from view,
Perhaps she has some things to do.
But then she comes back just like new,
Our next-door neighbor, the moon.

Night upon night beaming down on me
Her soft gray light so I can see.
My closest friend in the galaxy,
Our next-door neighbor, the moon.

Ooh, she’s not that far, a hop and skip away.
Maybe I’ll go up and visit her someday.

Lie on your back and you look up high
At the lantern in the night-time sky.
She’ll be there as the years go by
Our biggest brightest firefly,
And I’m so glad that she’s nearby,
Our next-door neighbor, the moon.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's In My Hometown CD.

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