LOVELAND
From the show "Follies" (1971)
(Stephen Sondheim)


ENSEMBLE:
Time stops, hearts are young,
Only serenades are sung
In Loveland,
Where everybody lives to love.
Raindrops never rain,
Every road is Lovers' Lane
In Loveland,
Where everybody loves to live.
See that sunny sun and honeymoon,
There, where seven hundred days hath June.
Sweetheart, take my hand,
Let us find that wondrous land
Called Loveland, Loveland, Loveland...
FIRST CAVALIER:
The lover is transported by his rapture,
As ever heavenwards his heart ascends.
ENSEMBLE:
Loveland, where everybody lives to love.
SECOND CAVALIER:
The lover's heart contains a lover's secret.
Which only the beloved comprehends.
ENSEMBLE:
Loveland, where everybody loves to live.
THIRD CAVALIER:
To lover's eyes, a lover's eyes are jewels,
More radiant than the stars that light the sky.
ENSEMBLE:
Loveland, Loveland...
FOURTH CAVALIER:
Two lovers in devotion,
If separated, they must swoon and die.
ENSEMBLE:
Loveland, Loveland...
Bells ring, fountains splash,
Folks use kisses 'stead of cash
In Loveland. Loveland...
Love, Love, Loveland...
Love, Love, Loveland...
Love!


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LOVELAND (Newly revised for this show)
Follies - 1987 London Production
(Stephen Sondheim)
Roscoe & Company


(Sounds of people chattering and arguing)

(Music starts then fanfare of trumpets)

Roscoe:
Take the highway of happiness
Through the state of bliss
Till you come to the
Country called, Loveland

Every mile is a honeymoon
Every step a kiss
In the country
That people call, Loveland

Company:
Loveland

Roscoe:
Loveland, where love's the
Only path to take
Where hearts can stay forever young
And never break

Every day is a miracle
Every night much more
Every morning more lyrical
Than the one before

Loveland
Where sunny skies abound above
Where everybody loves to live
And lives to love

"L", is for the long, long road ahead
That leads all lovers
To the landscape of their dreams

Company:
Loveland
Loveland
Loveland
Loveland

Roscoe:
"O", is for the over whelming optimism
Only lovers know
Or so it seems

Company:
Loveland
Loveland
Loveland
Loveland

Roscoe:
"V", is for the various vesisatubes they'll weather
Because it's also for the
Vow they made together

Company:
Loveland
Loveland
Loveland
Loveland

Roscoe:
"E", is for the endless expectations lovers
Elevate so often
To extremes

Company:
Loveland
Loveland
Loveland
Loveland

Roscoe and Company:
Loveland, where sunny skies abound above
Where everybody loves to live
And lives…

Roscoe:
To love

Company:
Bing bong
Bing bong
Bing bong
Bing bong
Love



(Transcribed by Carlene Bogle - October 2003)