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Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon

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song nameNightgown of the Sullen Moon
artistThey Might Be Giants
albumThey'll Need A Crane (EP), Don't Let's Start (LP), Miscellaneous T, Then: The Earlier Years, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
year1989
first playedFeb. 9, 1995 (1 known performance)
run time1:59
sung byJohn Linnell

[edit] Trivia/Info

  • Did you know that Nightgown of the Sullen Moon was a book? Well, the Johns didn't know this when they wrote this song either.
  • Linnell has said this song was inspired by a young girl's drawing.
  • In issue #36 of Coraline creator Neil Gaiman's Sandman ("Over the Sea to Sky"), DJ Barbara Wong of WRAT New York is heard announcing this song on her pre-dawn radio show.

[edit] Song Themes

Body Parts, Clothes, Doors, Drugs, Falling, Fire, Forgetting, Remembering, Heads, Recycled Material, Size, Space, Super-Human Qualities, Time, Windows

[edit] Videos

 
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