A HEART THAT'S FREE
Alfred G. Robyn/Thomas Railey 1937

Deanna Durbin 1937


From the film One Hundred Men and a Girl 1937
Directed: Henry Koster
Leads: Deanna Durbin/Adolphe Menjou/Leopold Stokowski
One of only two motion pictures featuring the famous British conductor Leopold Stokowski
These lyrics from appearance with Jack Renard and Orchestra 1937

Not a thought, not a care
With a heart debonaire
I am free as the sea
LIke the lark who at dawn
Bids the darkness be gone
Do I sing merrily.

With a laugh and a dance
Mine's a life to entrance
For I know naught but glee
And the word that I bring
And the theme that I sing
Is the song of a heart that's free.

Ah then, let music ring
While sweet voices sing.

(bridge)

Echos repeating
Measures entreating
Song of a heart light and free.

Laughing all the day
Chasing cares away
Hear my roundelay.

Not a thought, not a care
With a heart debonaire
I am free as the sea
LIke the lark who at dawn
Bids the darkness be gone
Do I sing merrily.

With a laugh and a dance
Mine's a life to entrance
For I know naught but glee
And the word that I bring
And the theme that I sing
Is the song of my heart, my heart.




(Transcribed by David Story - June 2013)