Where Do We Go From Here?
music by PERCY WENRICH / lyrics by HOWARD JOHNSON
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? - sung a cappella by Kenny Gardner
MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN (full movie) - 1941
MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN (full movie) - 1941
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Where Do We Go From Here? is a classic World War I song written in 1917 by lyricist Howard Johnson and ragtime composer Percy Wenrich. Johnson served in the Navy during World War I, and then he moved to New York and immediately found himself working in Tin Pan Alley. Amongst his many hits, mostly with particularly long song titles, was the popular novelty song I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream. Johnson's early hit Where Do We Go From Here? was revived in Fleischer's 1941 full-length motion picture Mr. Bug Goes To Town. The song's appearance in the film was dampered by start of World War II, which coincided with the film's release. The start of the war was not good for the theatre business as going to the theatre was no longer popular during the march to war. The release of Mr. Bugs Goes To Town was derailed by the new war effort, and the film never lived up to its real potential in the theatre.
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1917
ARTHUR FIELDS & PEERLESS QUARTETTE |
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VICTOR MILITARY BAND |
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AMERICAN QUARTET |
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
VERSE 1
Paddy Mack drove a hack
Up and down Broadway,
Pat had one expression and he’d use it ev’ry day;
Anytime he’d grab a fare, to take them for a ride,
Paddy jumped upon the seat, cracked his whip and cried:
CHORUS 1
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Anywhere from Harlem to a Jersey city pier;”
When Pat would spy a pretty girl, he’d whisper in her ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
here?”
VERSE 2
One fine day, on Broadway,
Pat was driving fast,
When the street was blown to pieces
By a subway blast;
Down the hole poor Paddy went, a thinkin’ of his past,
The he says, says he, I think these words will be my last:
CHORUS 2
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Paddy’s neck was in the wreck, but still he had no fear;
He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
VERSE #
First of all, at the call,
When the war began,
Pat enlisted in the army as a fighting man;
When the drills began, they’d walk a hundred miles a day,
Tho’ the rest got tired, Paddy always used to say:
CHORUS 3
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Slip a pill to Kaiser Bill and make him shed a tear;
And when we see the enemy we’ll shoot them in the rear,
He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
VERSE 1
Paddy Mack drove a hack
Up and down Broadway,
Pat had one expression and he’d use it ev’ry day;
Anytime he’d grab a fare, to take them for a ride,
Paddy jumped upon the seat, cracked his whip and cried:
CHORUS 1
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Anywhere from Harlem to a Jersey city pier;”
When Pat would spy a pretty girl, he’d whisper in her ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
here?”
VERSE 2
One fine day, on Broadway,
Pat was driving fast,
When the street was blown to pieces
By a subway blast;
Down the hole poor Paddy went, a thinkin’ of his past,
The he says, says he, I think these words will be my last:
CHORUS 2
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Paddy’s neck was in the wreck, but still he had no fear;
He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
VERSE #
First of all, at the call,
When the war began,
Pat enlisted in the army as a fighting man;
When the drills began, they’d walk a hundred miles a day,
Tho’ the rest got tired, Paddy always used to say:
CHORUS 3
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Slip a pill to Kaiser Bill and make him shed a tear;
And when we see the enemy we’ll shoot them in the rear,
He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
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