Once You Pass Its Borders You Can Never Return Again
Toyland
From the operetta "Babes in Toyland"
Words past Glenn MacDonough, 1903
Music by Victor Herbert, 1903
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1. When you've grown upwards my dears,
And are as sometime as I,
You'll often ponder on the years
That scroll and then swiftly past, my dears,
That curlicue then swiftly by.
And of the many lands,
You lot will have journeyed through,
Y'all'll oft recall
The best of all,
The land your childhood knew!
Your childhood knew. Chorus
Chorus
Toyland. Toyland.
Piffling girl and male child land.
While you dwell inside it,
Yous are always happy then.
Childhood�s joy-land.
Mystic merry Toyland,
Once you lot laissez passer it�s borders,
You can never render once again.
2. When you've grown up, my dears,
There comes a dreary day.
When 'mid the locks of black appears
The outset pale gleam of gray, my dears,
The start pale gleam of gray.
Then of the past you'll dream
Equally grey-haired grown-ups do,
And seek once more
Its phantom shore,
The state your childhood knew!
Your childhood knew. Chorus
Victor Herbert, b. February. one, 1859, d. May 26, 1924, was an Irish-American cellist, conductor, and composer whose operettas are continually revived and whose songs have become classics of their genre. Herbert came to the United States from Republic of ireland in 1886 when the Metropolitan Opera engaged him every bit cellist. From 1898 to 1904 he was conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Herbert is best remembered for the operettas Babes in Toyland (1903), The Red Mill (1906), and Naughty Marietta (1910), and for the songs, "Kiss Me Again," "Gypsy Dearest Song," and "Ah Sweet Mystery of Life." He as well wrote the operas Natoma (1911) and Madeleine (1914).
First performance of Babes in Toyland was at the Grand Opera House, Chicago, June 17, 1903. Broadway premier at the Regal Theater, October 13, 1903. Ran for 192 performances and then traveled America for several years.
I of the first of 30 operettas that Victor Herbert would create, Babes in Toyland was wonderfully successful. It opened to great reviews in Chicago, and continued its very successful run on Broadway. Although the story was a bit of fluff, it had some brilliantly conceived and executed stage effects, and some magnificent and charming music performed. Because it was a fantasy, in no other production did Herbert have the liberty and range of material with which to let him imagination run riot.
William Studwell, The Christmas Carol Reader
Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) have delighted several generations with their zany moving picture antics. They were at the height of their comedic capabilities when they made the 1934 film Babes in Toyland. The movie, of form, was an offshoot of the 1903 operetta of the same name by the great Irish-American stage composer Victor Herbert (1859-1924). The Piece de resistance of the very charming and melodic delineation of the fanciful "lilliputian daughter and boy land" was the vocal "Toyland."
Providing the lyrics for Herbert's smooth and dreamy music was Brooklyn-built-in Glen MacDonough (1870-1924), who is known for little else. Technically, the words accept no direct affiliation with the traditions of Christmas. Merely the spirit of the song, about the great pleasure that toys bring children, is and so very compatible with the loving and giving essence of the Dec vacation. Herbert and MacDonough, furthermore, take sensitively captured the fleeting moments of childhood in their musical magical realm, so that children of all ages, including the Lauren and Hardy characters, can occasionally return inside the borders of Toyland in spite of the alarm with which the song ends ["... you tin can never return again."]
The four Babes in Toyland movies:
- 1934. Laurel and Hady, Charlotte Henry. Often rerun equally "March of the Wooden Soldiers."
- 1961. Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello. Colorful if contrived.
- 1986. Pat Morita, Drew Barrymore
- 1997: Animated version.
William L. Simon, ed., Reader�south Digest Merry Christmas Songbook (1981)
Babes in Toyland, one of Victor Herbert�s enchanting operettas, written in 1903, proved that the master could write children�s entertainments besides as he could sentimental love stores, which meant better than almost anyone else in those plough-of-the-century days. Toward the beginning of the evening, which includes a breathtaking Christmas pageant every bit well as such songs every bit "I Can�t Do the Sum", and "March of the Toys," the toys all join in a tribute to their fabled country, "Toyland." One reviewer called Babes in Toyland a "perfect dream of delight," and another, praising the ingenious scenery, rich costumes and dazzling music, write, "What more than could the spirit of mortal desire?" The song "Toyland" casts a cornball, virtually hypnotic spell with its swaying innocent rhythm.
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