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What does "blue corn moon" mean?

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Rebecca

"Blue corn moon" seems to be a made-up term for the movie. It doesn't have any meaning to it. In an interview archived on the website Wayback Machine, Stephen Schwartz, the musical composer of Pocahontas, was asked what "blue corn moon" meant. Schwartz said that he made it up because he liked the sound of it for the song. He continued to say that he was inspired by a phrase he found in Native American poetry: moon of green corn.

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