{"id":150,"date":"2021-05-10T01:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=150"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:38:00","slug":"blue-moon-of-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/blue-moon-of-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Moon of Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr \/>\n<p>by Bill Monroe :: Key of D :: Recorded by Bill Monroe \u2013 Patsy Cline \u2013 Elvis Presley<\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea63671237b8076255539' value='69ea63671237b8076255539'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea63671237b8076255539' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea63671237b8076255539' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea63671237b8076255539' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea63671237b8076255539' ><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Monroe&#8217;s earliest-known performance of Blue Moon of Kentucky was on the Grand Ole Opry broadcast of August 25, 1945. He first recorded it for Columbia Records on September 16, 1946 at The Wrigley Building in Chicago, Illinois. That recording was released in early 1947. At the time, the Bluegrass Boys included vocalist and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjoist Earl Scruggs, who later formed their own bluegrass band, the Foggy Mountain Boys. Both Flatt and Scruggs performed on the recording, although Bill Monroe supplied the vocals on this song.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>The song, described as a &#8220;bluegrass waltz&#8221;, had become a United States wide hit by 1947 and also became enormously popular with other bluegrass, country, and early rockabilly acts. The song was revered at the Grand Ole Opry and others; Carl Perkins played an uptempo version of this song in his early live performances. It was also popularized by Patsy Cline, and later released by Elvis Presley.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>( Elvis Presley Intro )\u00a0\u00a0 [C] Blue moon, [F] blue moon, [C] blue moon,\u00a0 keep shining [G] bright.\u00a0\u00a0 [C]\u00a0 Blue moon, keep on [C7] shining bright.\u00a0 Won't you\u00a0 [F] bring me back my [Fm] baby tonight. \u00a0 Blue [C] moon, [G] keep shining [C] bright.<\/strong><\/span><\/em>\r\n<strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chords\/F\/CH 7th.jpg\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/><\/strong>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>{ CHORUS } - - - - - [C] Blue moon of Kentucky keep on [F7] shining. Shine [C] on the one that's [C7] gone and made me [G] blue. I said - Blue [C] moon of Kentucky keep on [F Fm ] shining.\u00a0 Shine [C] on the one that's [G7] gone and made me [C] blue<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>[TURN AROUND] - - - - - Well, it was [F] on a moonlight night.\u00a0 [C] Stars - shining bright.\u00a0\u00a0 [F] Love was in your eyes, [C] but you said [G] good-bye.\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Blue [C] moon of Kentucky keep on [ F Fm ] shining.\u00a0\u00a0 Shine [C] on the one that's [G7] gone and made me [C] blue<\/strong><\/span><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chords\/G\/CH minor.jpg\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - - - -<\/span> <\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[TURN AROUND] - - - - -<\/span> <\/strong>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bill Monroe :: Key of D :: Recorded by Bill Monroe \u2013 Patsy Cline \u2013 Elvis Presley ( Elvis Presley Intro )\u00a0\u00a0 [C] Blue moon, [F] blue moon, [C] blue moon,\u00a0 keep shining [G] bright.\u00a0\u00a0 [C]\u00a0 Blue moon, keep on [C7] shining bright.\u00a0 Won&#8217;t you\u00a0 [F] bring me back &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/blue-moon-of-kentucky\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Moon of Kentucky<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,24,120,133,126,265,56,59,116,117,115,128,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-filter","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-elvis","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-patsy-cline","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27416,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/27416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}