A popular song from 1917.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover Art by Albert W. Barbelle.
Copyright ©9 Jan 1917.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Once a boy met a man who was famous
Filled with envy the boy sadly sighed
“Oh, how happy I’d be
If such fame smiled on me”
Then the famous man replied
Refrain:
The road that leads to fortune and fame
Is paved with gold in your dreams
But after you’ve journeyed and reached your aim
It seldom is all that it seems
To have, to hold, to love and caress
Is all we can ask from above
For the road that leads to happiness
Is the road that leads to love
- On the highway of love ev’ry milestone
Is an Angel from Heaven above
All the world will be bright
If you turn to the right
To the road that leads to love
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: