If you’re watching the film version of “The Sound of Music” for the umpteenth time, and want to sing along, this post is for you.
All of the songs from the original soundtrack are here in order. If there are problems, please send me an email.
Original Soundtrack Release:
- Prelude and “The Sound of Music” – Orchestra and Maria
- Overture and Preludium (Dixit Dominus) – Orchestra and Nuns Chorus
- “Morning Hymn” and “Alleluia” – Nuns Chorus
- “Maria” – Nuns Chorus
- “I Have Confidence” – Maria
- “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” – Rolfe and Liesl
- “My Favorite Things” – Maria
- “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” – Mother Abbess
- “The Lonely Goatherd” – Maria and the Children
- “The Sound of Music” – The Children and the Captain
- “Do-Re-Mi” – Maria and the Children
- “Something Good” – Maria and the Captain
- “Processional and Maria” – Organ, Orchestra and Nuns Chorus
- “Edelweiss” – The Captain, Maria, the Children and Chorus
- “So Long, Farewell” – The Children
- “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” (reprise) – Chorus and Orchestra
The Sound of Music:
The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears
My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like the chime that flies from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook as it trips and falls over stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to prey
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I’ve heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I’ll sing once more
To laugh like a brook as it trips and falls over stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to prey
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I’ve heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I’ll sing once more
Preludium (Dixit Dominus)
Dixit Dominus Domino meo
Sede a dextris meis
Donec ponan inimicos tuos
Scabelleum pedum tuorum
Dominus a dextris tuis
Confregit in die irae suae reges
De torrente in via bibet
Propterea in exaltabit caput
Gloria Patri, et Filio
Et Spiritui Sancto
Sicut erat in principio
Et nunc, et semper
Et in saecula saeculorum. Amen
Rex admirabilis
Et triumphator nobilis
Dulcedo ineffabilis, ineffabilis
Totus desiderabilis
Totus desiderabilis
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Maria
She climbs a tree and scrapes her knee,
Her dress has got a tear
She waltzes on her way to mass
and whistles on the stair
And underneath her wimple she has curlers in her hair
I even heard her singing in the abbey.
She’s always late for chapel
but her penitence is real.
She’s always late for everything,
except for every meal.
I hate to have to say it, but I very firmly feel:
Maria’s not an asset to the abbey.
I’d like to say a word in her behalf.
Maria makes me laugh.
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find the word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o’-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
When I’m with her I’m confused, out of focus and bemused
And I never know exactly where I am
Unpredictable as weather, she’s as flighty as a feather
She’s a darling! She’s a demon! She’s a lamb!
She’d out pester any pest, drive a hornet from its nest
She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
She is gentle! She is wild! She’s a riddle! She’s a child!
She’s a headache! She’s an angel! She’s a girl!
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find the word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o’-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
For fate to turn the light on.
Your life, little girl, is an empty page
That men will want to write on.
Baby, it´s time to think.
Better beware, be canny and careful
Baby, you´re on the brink.
Fellows will fall in line.
Eager young lads and rogues and cads
Will offer you food and wine.
To face a world of men.
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken.
Telling you what to do.
I am seventeen going on eighteen.
I´ll take care of you.
I know that I´m naive.
Fellows I meet may tell me I´m sweet
And willingly I believe.
Innocent as a rose.
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies.
What do I know of those?
To face a world of men.
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken.
Telling me what to do
You are seventeen going on eighteen
I´ll depend on you.
And whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things.
Doorbells and sleigh bells
And schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things.
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver-white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the bee stings
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so bad.
Climb every mountain,
Search high and low,
Follow every byway,
Every path you know.
Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
‘Till you find your dream.
A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.
Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
Till you find your dream
A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life,
For as long as you live.
The Lonely Goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Lusty and clear from the goatherd’s throat heard
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
O ho lay dee odl lee o, lay dee odl lee o lay
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo
What a duet for a girl and goatherd
Odl lay ee (odl lay ee)
Odl lay hee hee (odl lay hee hee)
Odl lay ee . . .
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hmm hmm
What a duet for a girl and goatherd
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Ode lay-ee
Ode lay-ee
Ode lay-ee-ee
Ode lay-ee
Wooo!
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears
My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
That rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime
That flies from a church on a breeze
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I’ve heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I’ll sing once more
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
Over stones in its way
To sing through the night
Like a lark who is learning to pray
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I’ll sing once more
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with A-B-C
When you sing you begin with do-re-mi
The first three notes just happen to be
Do-re-mi, do-re-mi
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh)
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
So-do!
are only the tools we use to build a song
Once you have these notes in your heads
you can sing a million different tunes by mixing them up
Like this:
So Do La Ti Do Re Do
So Do La Ti Do Re Do
One word for every note
Like this:
You can sing most anything
You can sing most anything
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do
Do Ti La So Fa Mi Re
Mi So So
Re Fa Fa
La Ti Ti
You can sing most anything
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
Perhaps I had a miserable youth
But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past
There must have been a moment of truth
Whether or not you should
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good
Whether or not you should
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good
Nothing ever could
So somewhere in my youth
Or childhood
I must have done something
Something good
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say “cuckoo”
But firmly they compel us Cuckoo, cuckoo
To say goodbye
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu
I’d like to stay and taste my first champagne
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye!
I’m glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly
The sun has gone to bed and so must I
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Maria And Liesl)
Every morning you greet me
Small and white
Clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever
Every morning you greet me
Small and white
Clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live
Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
Till you find your dream
Age of the Geek 