Text by Mitchell Parish
I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight
I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night
The roses are sighing a moonlight serenade
The stars are a glow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming
My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and sing you a moonlight serenade
Let us stray till break of day in love's valley of dreams
Just you and I a summer sky, a heavenly breeze kissing the trees
So don't let me wait come to me tenderly in the June night
I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight
A love song, my darling, a moonlight serenade
We can stay, till break of day
"Moonlight Serenade" fu incisa e pubblicata da Glenn Miller nel 1939, anche se la melodia egli l'aveva già composta nel 1935. La versione strumentale del pezzo riscosse un fenomenale successo, mentre la versione cantata, con il testo definitivo di Mitchell Parish, divenne molto popolare solo nel 1966, quando fu registrata da Frank Sinatra.
