Joie de Vivre

"Joie de Vivre" (French for "Joy of Living") is a song featured in the 1967 Disney live-action film Monkeys, Go Home!. The song features music and lyrics composed by the Sherman Brothers - Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman who previously wrote songs for certain Disney projects such as The Sword in the Stone, Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, and It's a Small World and was sung by Maurice Chevalier and Darleen Carr respectively.
The song was also included in the Disneyland Records album A Musical Tour of France with Maurice Chevalier and was sung by Chevalier and the Disneyland Children's Chorus respectively.
==Lyrics==
Long, long, long ago
I heard my father singing
Singing so happily
While harvesting the hay
How large is this, our galaxy
How small a speck our Earth
And how much smaller, mortal we
Our troubles, they must trivial be
Long years have come and gone
And yet, his song keeps ringing
Bringing my heart away
From worry and dismay
How large is this, our galaxy
How small a speck our Earth
And how much smaller, mortal we
Our troubles, they must trivial be
Joie, joie, joie de vivre
Money cannot buy it
Joy, joy, the joy of living
Doesn't cost a sou
So when your heart is heavy
And your cares are many
Just try to count the stars
And pouf, your cares are few
How large is this, our galaxy
How small a speck our Earth
And how much smaller, mortal we
Our troubles, they must trivial be
How large is this, our galaxy
How small a speck our Earth
And how much smaller, mortal we
Our troubles, they must trivial be
==Trivia==
*Darleen Carr, who sang this song in Monkeys, Go Home!, would later voice Shanti in The Jungle Book. Coincidentally, both films feature songs written by the Sherman Brothers and were released in the same year.
==References==
Category:Sherman Brothers songs