Theme song for the 1929 show “New Orleans”.
Words by Ben Adam.
Music by Hugo Riesenfeld and Ted Shapiro.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Life is a search for a treasure
Some call it glory and wealth
Some only seek joy and pleasure
To others the great goal is health
But what rarer prize can there be
Than having a pal like you’ve been to me?
Chorus
Pals forever, in sunshine and rain
Pals together in pleasure and pain
Never caring what fortune may bring
Gladly sharing with you ev’rything
No wrong too great to forgive
Buddies as long as we live
No one ever shall part you from me
Pals forever we always will be
- Not all our days have been May-days
Not all our skies have been blue
Out of the gloomiest gray-days
Together we’ve come smiling through
When life’s little journey is done
I know that up there we’ll still be as one
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: