"My Shining Hour" — Arlen and Mercer's 1943 brightest moment.
Writer(s): arlen/mercer
This moment, this minute, and each second in it
Will leave a glow upon the sky
And as time goes by
It will never die
This will be my shining hour
Calm and happy and bright
And in my dreams, your face will flower
Through the darkness of the night
Like the lights of home, before me
Or an angel, whos watching oer me
This will be my shining hour
til Im with you again
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- Written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the 1943 film The Sky's the Limit. The shining hour as the moment of maximum brightness before departure — a wartime song about the last perfect moment before someone goes away.