Standard (EADGBE)
Chorus
You might think it's
goofy
But the
man in the moon is a
Newfie
And he's sailing on to
glory, a
way in the golden
dory
He's sailing on to
glory, a
way in the golden
dory
Codfish Dan, from Newfoundland
He
dreamt that he had three
wishes
And he took Mars and all the stars
And
turned them into big
fishes
He said the sky was much too dry
And he
made a wavy
motion
And the moon like a boat began to float
Up
on the starry
ocean
One night he strayed to the Milky Way
To
cast his nets up
on it
He spied the tail of a great big whale
And he
harpooned Halley's
Comet
He never had a pot for the fish that he caught
So he
had to use the Big
Dipper
And the sun, by jove, was a very good stove
For
cooking up smelts and
kippers
Now, the Northern Light that seem so bright
Like
nothing could be
grander
Well, they're just waves of the moon-boat made
By the
Newfoundland com
mander
And don't you sigh and say, "Oh, my
What
gross exagger
ation!"
'Cause he'll tell you the dream was true
When
Codfish Dan a
wakens.