"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.
