WHERE AM I GOING?

(Cy Coleman (m) / Dorothy Fields (l) )

Lyrics as sung by Barbra Streisand 1966
seventh studio album 'Color Me Barbra'
Sung also in the colour CBS TV special 
by the same name March 1966.



Also sung by:
Shirley MacLaine
Dionne Warwick
Chita Rivera
Mimi Hines
Sarabeth Tucek
Jacqueline Dankworth
Mary Wells
Dorothy Fields
Basil Valdez


Where I going?
And what will I find?
What's in this grab bag
That I call I my mind?
What am I doing
Alone on the shelf?
Ain't it a shame
But no one's to blame but myself.

Which way is clear
When you've lost your way
Year after year?

Do I keep falling in love for just the kick of it?
Staggering through the thin and thick of it,
Hating each old, tired trick of it
Know what I am,
I'm good and sick of it!

Where am I going?
Why do I care?
Run where it's foul,
Run where it's fair,
No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Looking inside me, what do I see?
Anger and hope and doubt,
What am I all about?
And where am I going?
Tell me why do I care?

No matter where I run I meet myself there
Looking inside me, what do I see?
Anger, hope and doubt
What am I all about?
And where am I going?
Where am I going?

NOTES:

Contained in the soundtrack of the 1969 
film musical 'Sweet Charity'.
Also contained in the soundtrack of the 
Broadway play (see below).

Director: Bob Fosse
Leads: Shirley MacLaine / John Martin / 
Ricardo Montalban / Sammy 
Davis Jr.

The film 'Sweet Charity' was based on the 1966 
Broadway play by the same name with Gwen Verdon 
and Ruth Buzzi.

'Sweet Charity' itself was based on Federico Fellini's 
screenplay for the 1957 drama 'Nights of Cabiria'.




(Transcribed by David Story - February 2014)