The Mavericks: "Blue Moon" (1995)

"Blue Moon" is a classic popular song. It was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, and has become a standard ballad.

The Mavericks were a grammy-winning alternative country music band founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida, United States. Between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums, in addition to charting 14 singles on the Billboard country charts. Their highest-peaking American single was 1996's "All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down", a collaboration with accordionist Flaco Jiménez. After the band split up in 2003, lead singer Raul Malo became a solo artist. Robert Reynolds has released two solo EPs, 'Audrey In A Dream' & 'The Wintersky Works', co-founded a 'sort-of-supergroup' called SWAG - releasing the album Catchall, and performs with fellow member Paul Deakin in various groups. Occasional supporting member, guitarist and songwriter Jamie Hanna, joined Jonathan McEuen in the duo Hanna-McEuen. Martin Fell is currently attempting to reunite the band, but his efforts are yet to bear fruit. However, press backing for the band's return is starting to emerge.

The lyrics of the song presumably refer to an English idiomatic expression: "once in a blue moon" means very rarely. (The origin of the expression is unclear; see article blue moon.) The narrator of the song is relating a stroke of luck so unlikely that it must have taken place under a blue moon. The title relies on a play on words, since Blue is also the colour of melancholy, and indeed the narrator is sad and lonely until he (or she) finds love.


- Lyrics:

I know I'd stand in line until you think
you have the time to spend an evening with me
And if we go someplace to dance
I know that there's a chance
you won't be leaving with me
And afterwards we'd drop into a quiet little place
and have a drink or two
And then I'd go and spoil it all
by saying something stupid
Like I love you

I can see it in your eyes that you despise
the same old lies you heard the night before
And though it's just a line to you from me
it's true and never seemed so right before

I practise everyday to find some clever lines
to say to make the meaning come true
But then I think I'll wait until
the evening gets late and
I'm alone with you
The time is right your perfume fills my head,
the stars get red and oh the night's so blue
And then I'd go and spoil it all
by saying something stupid
Like I love you

The time is right your perfume fills my head,
the stars get red and oh the night's so blue
And then I'd go and spoil it all
by saying something stupid
Like I love you
I love you
I love you
I do