REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (Soundtrack)
Songs from the film "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" (1938)

Starring: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart,
Phyllis Brooks, Helen Westley, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson…


AN OLD STRAW HAT
(Music by: Harry Revel / Lyrics by: Mack Gordon)

Performed by: Shirley Temple

What is all this dizzy busy hustling for
People running helter-skelter on their way
What is all this hazy crazy bustling for
No time to notice it's a sunny day

Why don't you take a vacation
Looks like you've got to have relaxation
Aw, come on, forget your troubles for a while
Why don't you try to feel like I do

If I had one wish to make
This is the wish I would choose
I'd want an old straw hat
A suit of overalls
And a worn out pair of shoes

Just let me roam around
Laughing at big city blues
With an old straw hat
A suit of overalls
And a worn out pair of shoes

Howdy, Mister Brown
Ho-hum!
Goin' fishin'? Hope you get a bite
Howdy Mister Jones!
Ho-hum!
How's about a hay ride Saturday night?

Sing hi-ho the merri-o
What've you got, what've you got to lose
Get an old straw hat
A suit of overalls
And a worn out pair of shoes

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ALONE WITH YOU
(Music by: Lew Pollack / Lyrics by: Sidney D. Mitchell)

Performed by: Phyllis Brooks and Jack Haley


I've always known that three's a crowd
Only two may dance, only to romance
So when I see you in a crowd
I'm not satisfied till I reach your side.

Alone with you I don't know the meaning of time,
Alone with you I'm yours without reason or rhyme.
I'd be content to be sent to an island in the sea,
If I had you with me, how lucky I would be.

Alone with you I'd have everything that I need,
I always knew I'd follow wherever you lead.
So ring the bells in the steeple, tell all the people
That we are one and I've begun
To live in a heaven alone with you.

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THE TOY TRUMPET
(Music by: Raymond Scott / Lyrics by: Sidney D. Mitchell & LewPollack)

Performed by: Shirley Temple


Have you heard
Have you heard
There's a new tooter in
With the Tin pan parade
Pass the word
Pass the word
'Cause it's some toy trumpet brigade

Come along
Come along
If you're soon enough
You'll hear him do his stuff
Hurry up
Hurry up
They will soon be here
They're getting nearer

Here they come
Here they come
Hear the hum of the drum
Of the Tin pan parade
Better run
Better run
'Cause it's some toy trumpet brigade

Here they are, there's the leader
Passing by , aint he grand
He's the star, he's the leader of the band
There he goes with his trumpet
Tootin' high, tootin' low
When he blows he's a rootin', tootin' dandy

Tootin' low
Tootin' high
He's a new tooter in
With the Tin pan parade
There they go
Passing by
That was some toy trumpet brigade

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HAPPY ENDING
(Music by: Lew Pollack / Lyrics by: Sidney D. Mitchell)

Performed by: Phyllis Brooks
(Also recorded by Shirley Temple but not used in the film)


What do we all read a story book for
What do we look for, when it is through?
What does every Cinderella sigh for
What does she try for, till dreams come true?

Happy ending, with all our troubles behind
Happy ending, that's what we're trying to find!
Why didn't Cinderella waver? What made her braver?
She knew the Prince would come and save her!

Happy ending, the best of wonderful times
Always ending, just like in nursery rhymes!
May each thing you pray for bring you
Joy and laughter, ever after
Happy ending to you all!

Happy ending, with all our troubles behind
Happy ending, that's what we're trying to find!
Why didn't Cinderella waver? What made her braver?
She knew the Prince would come and save her!

Happy ending, the best of wonderful times
Always ending, just like in nursery rhymes!
May each thing you pray for bring you
Joy and laughter, ever after
Happy ending to you all

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YOU`VE GOTTA EAT YOUR SPINACH, BABY
(Music by: Harry Revel / Lyrics by: Mack Gordon)

Excerpts sung by: various girls at an audition


You've gotta eat your spinach, baby
That's the proper thing to do
It'll keep you kind of healthy too
And what it did for Popeye, it will do for you

You've gotta eat your spinach, baby
To give you lots of TNT
For whenever you're caressing me
Then you'll need every vitamin from A to Z

You've gotta eat your spinach, baby
If you do you can't go wrong
For it's gonna make you nice and strong
And the stronger you are, the longer you'll live
And the longer I'll have to love you

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COME AND GET YOUR HAPPINESS
(Music by: Samuel Pokrass / Lyrics by: Jack Yellen)

Performed by: Shirley Temple and Girls Chorus


Why are grown up peoples faces
Wrinkled like a lot of prunes
Money money that's what chases them
Around like crazy loon's
I think they make a big mistake
Wealth and happiness that counts
Are free to all in large amounts

There's millions worth of golden sunbeams
That everybody can possess
All Gods children got success
Come and get your happiness

There's billions worth of silver moonbeams
Enough for everyone I guess
What's a million more or less
Come and get your happiness

Among the wildwood of your happy childhood
Where you were Jill's and Jack
In raggy britches there's a lot of riches
On which you don't pay any income tax

So get under their blue heaven
Away from trouble and distress
Just find Mother Nature's address
And come and get your happiness

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CRACKLY GRAIN FLAKES SONG MEDLEY
(Music by: Lew Pollack / Lyrics by: Sidney D. Mitchell)

Sung by: Shirley Temple

My dear radio audience
Now I shall do
Some of the songs
I've had the pleasure
Of introducing to you
It was not so very long ago
When you heard this little ditty
On your ra-di-o

On the good ship Lollipop
It's a sweet trip to a candy shop
Where bon bons play
On the sunny beach of peppermint bay

And do you remember?

Animal Crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop
Gosh oh gee but I have fun
Swallowing animals one by one

And I never ever will
Forget my grandest thrill
The very first time that I sang

An ordinary day
Becomes a holiday
When I'm with you, hmm hmm
I have lots of toys
But I don't want to play

Yes and I'll never forget it
I sat in my Daddy's lap and whispered

Oh, Daddy, how I miss you
Your busy all your life
I love to hug and kiss you
Marry me and let me be your wife

Ahhhh, but it's great to reminisce
When I sang to my little Dutch Dolly
Just Like this

Sometimes I ought to hasche (hate) you
You make me feel so vlue (blue)
But honest I can't hate you
When you smile at me my lovely poopjan
Auckks mine goodness

(Tick Tick Tick)
The clock is ticking the hours away
And so my radio audience
The time has come, for me to say

Goodnight my friends
The tired old moon is descending
Goodnight my friends
My moment with you now is ending

(Whistles)

And So I must leave you
With kindest regards from Rebecca and Crackly Grain Flakes
The Grain Flakes that makes your tummy say 'Yum-Yum-Yummy'
I want all my little friends to close their eyes and dream
For in the morning
It's Crackly Grain Flakes with sugar and cream
Eat it with a smile and life will be worth while
And now in conclusion
Please join me in singing my theme

Goodnight my friends
Sleep tight my friends
God bless you pleasant dreams
Nightie night

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GOODNIGHT, MY LOVE
(Music by: Harry Revel / Lyrics by: Mack Gordon)

Performed by: Shirley Temple


Goodnight, my love
Your Mommy is kneeling beside you
Goodnight, my love
To dreamland the Sandman will guide you
Come now you sleepy head
Close your eyes, go to bed
My precious sleepy head
You mustn't play peek-a-boo

Goodnight, my love
Your little Dutch dolly is yawning
Goodnight my love
Your teddy bear's called it a day
Your dog is fast asleep, my but he's smart
Sleep tight my love, goodnight my love
God bless you, pleasant dreams sweetheart

Goodnight, my love
The tired old moon is descending
Goodnight, my love
My moment with you now is ending
It was so heavenly, holding you close to me
It will be heavenly
To hold you again in a dream

The stars above
Have promised to meet us tomorrow
Till then my love
How dreary the new day will seem
So for the present, dear, we'll have to part
Sleep tight my love, goodnight my love
Remember that your mine, sweetheart

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AU REVOIR (Medley)
(Additional Music by: Lew Pollack / Lyrics by: Sidney D. Mitchell)

Sung by: Shirley Temple


Medley consisting of:

"On The Good Ship Lollipop"
(Music by: Richard A. Whiting / Lyrics by: Sidney Clare)

"When I`m With You"
(Music by: Harry Revel / Lyrics by: Mack Gordon)

"Animal Crackers In My Soup"
(Music by: Ray Henderson / Lyrics by: Ted Koehler & Irving Caesar)

"Oh My Goodness"
(Music by: Harry Revel / Lyrics by: Mack Gordon)

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PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS
(Music by: Leon Jessel 1921 / Lyrics by: Ballard MacDonald 1922)
Arranged for the film by Raymond Scott

Sung by: Shirley Temple with the Raymond Scott Quintet & Men's Chorus
Danced by Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson & Shirley Temple

The toy shop door is locked up tight
And ev'rything is quiet for the night
When suddenly the clock strikes twelve
The fun's begun
The dolls are in their best array
There's going to be a wonderful parade
" Hark to the drum, oh, here they come"
Cries ev'ryone
Hear them all cheering
Now they are nearing
There's the captain stiff as starch
Bayonets flashing
Music is crashing
As the wooden soldiers march
Sabers a-clinking
Soldiers a-winking
At each pretty little maid
Here they come!
Here they come!
Here they come!
Here they come!
Wooden soldiers on parade

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Film Review:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/40595/Rebecca-of-Sunnybrook-
Farm/overview

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Contributed by Ferda Dolunay - October 2007)
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