Blue Moon
Performed by Billie Holiday
"Blue Moon" is a classic popular song. It was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz
Hart in 1934, and has become a standard ballad.
*Fill in the blanks in the song with the Simple Past Tense of the verbs between
brackets:
Blue moon
You _________ (see) me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon
You _____________ (know) just what I
_________ (be) there for
You _____________ (hear) me saying a
prayer for
Someone I really _____________ (can)
care for
And then there suddenly ____________
(appear) before me
The only one my arms _________ (can)
ever hold
I ____________ (hear) somebody
whisper please adore me
And when I _____________ (look) the
moon ___________(have) turned to
gold
Blue moon
Now I’m no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
And then there suddenly____________
(appear) before me
The only one my arms _________ (can)
ever hold
I __________ (hear) somebody whisper
Name:__________________
Date:___________________
please adore me
And when I _____________ (look) the
moon ________ (have) turned to gold
Blue moon
Now I’m no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue moon
*Read the lyrics.
*Now answer the following questions
about the song:
Who is singing the song?
________________________________
Who is he/she singing to?
________________________________
What is this person saying through this
song?___________________________
________________________________
The lyrics are presumed to refer to an
English idiomatic expression: a blue
moon is either the second full moon in a
month or the third one when four full
moons occur in one season of the year,
which is a somewhat rare occurrence. If
something happens "once in a blue
moon" it almost never happens. The
narrator of the song is relating a stroke
of luck so unlikely that it must have
taken place under a blue moon.