Pack up your troubles and just get happy
Ya better chase all your cares away
Sing Hallelujah, c’mon get happy
Get ready for the judgment day
The sun is shinin’, c’mon get happy
The Lord is waiting to take your hand
Shout Hallelujah, c’mon get happy
We’re goin’ to the Promised Land
We’re headin’ ‘cross the river
Gonna wash our sins
in the tide
It’s all so peaceful
On the other side
Forget your troubles and just get happy
Ya better chase all your cares away
Sing Hallelujah, c’mon get happy
Get ready for the judgment day
Words by Ted Koehler and Music by Harold Arlen.
Was Arlen’s first published song.
It was charted twice in 1930: Nat Shilkret (# 6) and Frankie Trumbauer
(# 15)
Introduced by Ruth Etting in the revue "9:15 Revue"
Sung by Judy Garland in the 1950 film "Summer Stock"
Dubbed by Jane Froman for Susan Hayward in the 1952 film "With A Song In
My Heart"
