"Sugar Moon" is a Western swing love song written by Bob Wills and Cindy Walker. The title comes from a refrain in the chorus:
- When it's sugarcane time,
- Long around about June,
- I'll be walkin' with sugar
- 'Neath that old sugar moon.
First recorded by Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys in 1947 (Columbia 37313), it reached #1 staying on the charts six weeks.
It has been covered by Willie Nelson, k.d. lang (1988), Asleep at the Wheel, and other artists.
The 1958 Pat Boone song "Sugar Moon" is a different song by songwriter Danny Wolfe.
Famous quotes containing the words sugar and/or moon:
“To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The moon was waiting for her chill effect.
I looked at nine: the swarm was turned to rock
In every lifelike posture of the swarm,
Transfixed on mountain slopes almost erect.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)