Hey, it was at the Russian Wodehouse Society, dontchaknow...


The Land Where The Good Songs Go
lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse, music by Jerome Kern (1917)

On the other side of the moon
Ever so far
Beyond the last little star,
There's a land, I know,
Where the good songs go,
Where it's always afternoon.
And snug in a haven of peace and rest,
Like the dear old songs
That we love the best.

It's a land of flowers
And April showers
With sunshine in between,
With roses blowing
And rivers flowing
'Mid rushes growing green,
Where no one hurries,
And no one worries,
And life runs calm and slow.
And I wish some day
I could find my way
To the land where the good songs go.

Dear old songs forgotten too soon,
They had their day,
And then we threw them away,
And without a sigh we would pass them by
For some other, newer tune.
So off to a happier home they flew,
Where they're always loved,
And they're always new.

It's a land of flowers
And April showers
With sunshine in between,
With roses blowing
And rivers flowing
'Mid rushes growing green,
Where no one hurries,
And no one worries,
And life runs calm and slow.
And I wish some day
I could find my way
To the land where the good songs go.

referring to Reading Lyrics (Gottlieb & Kimball), I made a few corrections to the Russian text.
-Joe-
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