"When It's Moonlight On The Prairie" is a popular song published in 1908 with lyrics by Robert F. Roden and music by S.R. Henry. The lyrics tell of a cowboy eloping with his Mary. The chorus is:
- When it's moonlight on the prairie, darling Mary,
- I'll be waiting with the ponies, love for you;
- There's a parson only twenty miles away, twenty miles away, twenty miles away;
- When the knot is tied, then side by side we'll ride, dear,
- To a pretty little home I've built for you;
- I'll be waiting, waiting, waiting for you, Mary,
- When it's moonlight on the prairie, Mary dear!'
"When It's Moonlight On The Prairie" has been recorded many times.
Famous quotes containing the words when it, moonlight and/or prairie:
“The question mark is alright when it is all alone when it
is used as a brand on cattle or when it could be used
in decoration but connected with writing it is
completely entirely completely uninteresting.... A
question is a question, anybody can know that a
question is a question and so why add to it the
question mark when it is already there when the
question is already there in the writing.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“If you will patiently dance in our round,
And see our moonlight revels, go with us.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)