Lyr Req: The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Subject: The boulevard of Broken Dreams
From: GUEST,The Navigator
Date: 01 Jul 00 - 04:02 PM

A basement saloon in Detroit right after WW II had a wonderful piano player named "Dewey". A favorite request was for " The boulevard of Broken Dreams ". Anybody remember the lyrics? Harpgirl's Daddy The Navigator

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The boulevard of Broken Dreams
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Jul 00 - 04:06 PM

...Hi daddy...you must be in the other room on your computer! I bet someone knows this. Me and mom spent a bunch of your money today, by the way!!!hehehehehe hg

Subject: Lyr Add: BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS (Dubin/Warren)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jul 00 - 04:16 PM

Dang! Not gonna make the two-minute record on this one, either!
-Joe Offer-

Hi, Harpy's Dad! Harpy and I decided we were all neighbors in Detroit in the early 1950's. My mom went to Cooley High in the 30's.

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BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
Words by Al Dubin and Music by Harry Warren
recorded by Tony Bennett

This version did not chart but in 1934, it was a # 6 hit for Jan Garber
Sung in the film "Moulin Rouge" by Constance (no relation) Bennett

(Latin rhythm)

I walk along the street of sorrow
The boulevard of broken dreams
Where gigolo and gigolette
Can take a kiss without regret
So they forget their broken dreams

You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow
When you behold your shattered schemes
Gigolo and gigolette
Wake up to find their eyes are wet
With tears that tell of broken dreams

Here is where you'll always find me
Always walking up and down
But I left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town

The joy that you find here you borrow
You cannot keep it long it seems
Gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams

Here is where you'll always find me
Always walking up and down
For I left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town

The joy that you find here you borrow
You cannot keep it long it seems
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The boulevard of Broken Dreams
From: GUEST,The Navigator
Date: 01 Jul 00 - 04:29 PM

That was quick!. Harpgirl, my daughter, and Nathan are here for the weekend. I don't remember your mom by the name Offer, but I went to Redfor High, and graduated in Jan 1941, so we were contemperaries ( sp? ) I had a lot of friends at Cooley. I lived Near the Deroit Golf Club, on Linwood near 6 Mile. Most of uw who lived in this area went to Redford, Cooley, or UofD High. Thanks for the fast response. The saloon was in the basement on Cass Ave.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The boulevard of Broken Dreams
From: Ferrara
Date: 01 Jul 00 - 10:38 PM

Just a teensy suggestion -- I remember it as "The joy you find her you *must* borrow".