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Lyr Req: Land Where the Good Songs Go (Kern)

29 May 06 - 05:06 PM (#1749603)
Subject: RE: The Land where the good songs go
From: GUEST,lenns@telus.net

Anyone have the lyrics and music? or know where I can find them?

By Jerome Kern from "Miss 1917"

Thanks

30 May 06 - 04:00 PM (#1750210)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Land Where the Good Songs Go (Kern)
From: Peace

The lyrics were by P G Wodehouse. Kern did the music to those lyrics. Now, to find the lyrics . . . .

30 May 06 - 04:43 PM (#1750235)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Land Where the Good Songs Go (Kern)
From: Peace

OK. Not exactly EUREKA, but close. Here is an mp3 that is clear and easily understood. Sorry, I do not have time at present to transcribe the lyrics.

mp3 here.

31 May 06 - 04:17 AM (#1750477)
Subject: ADD: Land Where the Good Songs Go (Kern)
From: Joe Offer

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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31 May 06 - 01:09 PM (#1750668)
Subject: RE: Lyr req: Land Where the Good Songs Go (Kern)
From: Joe Offer

Any idea where to find sheet music for this? I didn't find it at Levy or American Memory.
-Joe-