I See the Moon Lyrics

“I see the moon” is a lullaby released by Meredith Willson in 1953 and also an old English nursery rhyme first recorded in 1784’s edition of the "Gammer Gurton’s Garland, The Nursery Parnassus" having the lyrics:

I see the moon,
And the moon sees me.
God bless the moon,
And God bless me.

This version is derived from one recorded by Clifton Johnson in "What They Say in New England: A Book of Signs, Sayings, and Superstitions" from 1896. Today it goes like this:

I see the moon,
the moon sees me,
the moon sees somebody
I want to see.

So God bless the moon,
and God bless me,
and God bless the somebody
I want to see.

[Thanks to Susan.baird for correcting these lyrics]