From the film “Moulin Rouge”, 1933
Words by Al Dubin
Music by Harry Warren
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Nightly, lights are shining brightly
Feet are tripping lightly while the music plays
Madness in the guise of gladness
Overcoming sadness in a million ways
Oh! gay Paree, look what you’ve done to me
Refrain
I walk along the street of sorrow
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where gigolo and gigolette
Can take a kiss without regret
So they forget their broken dreams
You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow
When you behold your shattered schemes
And gigolo and gigolette
Wake up to find their eyes are wet
With tears that tell of broken dreams
Here is where you’ll always find me
Always walking up and down
But I left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town
The joy that you find here, you borrow
You cannot keep it long, it seems
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: