As Long As There's a Moon

"As Long As There's a Moon" is a song sung by Phoebus (Alan Menken) & Esmeralda plus Clopin and the Gypsies in the Court of Miracles from Disney's 1996 animated film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was supposed to be an another attempted love, romantic and gypsy song but it was deleted from having too much focus on Quasimodo and replaced by the reprise of The Bells of a Notre Dame from the end of the battle sequence plus Frollo's death.

Lyrics
Clopin: (speaking & laughing) We'll have our party after all!

(singing): Hanging a wedding, well, what does it matter

You're sure to be roped at the end of the day?

Wedding or hanging the foreman of laughter we know either way

You're going to pay

Phoebus (speaking) Hey!

Clopin: ''Now, now, the groom must pay bright lights. It's another custom.''

(singing) But we can't have a wedding planned

Without a wedding band

When it's the music so tambourines clatter and break out the fields

And play gypsies play

(speaking): No, no, no. Something romantic to set the mood. Ah, that's better.

Gypsies: La la la la la, la la la

Sing a wedding song tonight

For the pretty bride to show her

We're sharing her glow

Clopin: Though our moon is just a lantern

Still she's shining big and bright

On this happy scene below her

Gypsies & Clopin: So, as long as there's a moon

To wish on

So, as long as there's a song

To croon

We'll throw the wedding jug to keep tradition

Clopin: And hope your love will last

As long as there's a moon

(speaking) One, two, three, a thousand pieces. I t means that your marriage will last a thousand years.

And now we must have the joining of the hands.

If on King of Fools will decide.

Quasimodo: (speaking) No, I can't. I...

Phoebus: (speaking) You might as well give in my friend.

I think we're all helpless here.

(singing): Who am I to fight the power?

A candlelight and then opens

Seems it we're being awfully rude now

Telling them no

Once they start a bridal shower

Once the wedding march begins

Who am I to spoil the mood now?

Phoebus and Esmeralda: So, as long as there's a moon, above us

Oh, it seems the shame through ways it's tune

You know

We all want someone to love us

I guess I love you

As long as there's a moon

Everyone: They say the moon is like a gypsy

She cast a spell and then she's gone

We know life is strange

Everything can change

With the dawn

Let the night go on

Oh!

As long as there's a moon

To guide us

Oh!

Don't let the morning come too soon

You know

We all want someone beside us

None of us is truly solitaire

Every moon is new when someone cares

I will care for you

As long as there's a moon

Gallery
This sequence has storyboards drawn by Paul and Gaëtean Brizzi and Fred Craig.