So Long, Farewell  
Composer(s): Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II
First performance/First release by: Mary Martin & Theodore Bikel - 1959
Covered by multiple other artists



Children:
There's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say "cuckoo"
Marta, Gretl, Brigitta:
Cuckoo, cuckoo

Children: Marta, Gretl, Brigitta:
Regretfully they tell us  
Cuckoo, cuckoo 
But firmly they compel us    
Cuckoo, cuckoo 
To say goodbye...
Marta, Gretl, Brigitta:
Cuckoo!

Children:
... to you

Children:
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night

Marta:
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight

Children:
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu

Friedrich:
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu

Children:
So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen

Liesl:
I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne

Children:
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

Kurt:
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye -- Goodbye!

Brigitta:
I'm glad to go, I cannot tell a lie

Louisa:
I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly

Gretl:
The sun has gone to bed and so must I

Children:
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

Guests:
Goodbye!