ROAD TO HAPPINESS (Soundtrack)


Songs from the film "Road To Happiness" (1942)
Starring John Boles, Roscoe Karns, Mona Barrie and Billy Lee
















BOOTS
(A poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Performed by Sam Flint




We're foot-slog-slog-slog-sloggin' over Africa
Foot-foot-foot-foot-sloggin' over Africa 
Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again!
There's no discharge in the war!


Seven-six-eleven-five-nine-an'-twenty mile to-day
Four-eleven-seventeen-thirty-two the day before
Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again!
There's no discharge in the war!


Don't-don't-don't-don't-look at what's in front of you.
Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again
Men-men-men-men-men go mad with watchin' em,
An' there's no discharge in the war!


Try-try-try-try-to think o' something different 
Oh-my-God-keep-me from goin' lunatic!
Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again!
There's no discharge in the war!


Count-count-count-count-the bullets in the bandoliers.
If-your-eyes-drop-they will get atop o' you!
Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again
There's no discharge in the war!


We-can-stick-out-'unger, thirst, an' weariness,
But-not-not-not-not the chronic sight of 'em
Boot-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again,
An' there's no discharge in the war!


'Taint-so-bad-by-day because o' company,
But night-brings-long-strings-o' forty thousand million
Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again.
There's no discharge in the war!


I-'ave-marched-six-weeks in 'Ell an' certify
It-is-not-fire-devils, dark, or anything,
But boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up an' down again,
An' there's no discharge in the war!




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DANNY BOY
(Traditional Scottish-Irish)
Performed by John Boles




Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
>From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling
'Tis you must go and I must bide


But come you back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
Then I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so




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VISION FUGITIVE
(Aria from Jules Massenet's 1881 Opera "Hérodiade")
Performed by John Boles




Divine volupté à mes regards promise!
Espérance trop brève
Qui viens bercer mon coeur et troubler ma raison...
Ah! ne t'enfuis pas douce illusion! 
Vision fugitive et toujours poursuivie
Ange mystérieux qui prend toute ma vie...
Ah! c'est toi! que je veux voir
Ô mon amour! ô mon espoir!
Vision fugitive! c'est toi!
Qui prends toute ma vie!
Te presser dans mes bras!
Sentir battre ton coeur
D'une amoureuse ardeur!
Puis mourir enlacés...dans une même ivresse
Dans une même ivresse...
Pour ces transports...pour cette flamme.
Ah! sans remords et sans plainte
Je donnerais mon âme
Pour toi mon amour! mon espoir!
Vision fugitive! c'est toi!
Qui prends toute ma vie!
Oui! c'est toi! mon amour!
Toi, mon seul amour! mon espoir! 






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(Contributed by Mel Priddle - October 2007)