"The Lonely Goatherd" is a show tune from the musical The Sound of Music that makes use of yodelling.
This song tells the whimsical story of a goatherd whose yodelling is heard from far off and by passers-by, until he falls in love with a girl who wears a pale-pink coat, with her mother joining in the yodelling.
This song has been sung at different points in the musical depending on the production. In the 1959 Broadway production, Maria (played b...
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"The Lonely Goatherd" is a show tune from the musical The Sound of Music that makes use of yodelling.
This song tells the whimsical story of a goatherd whose yodelling is heard from far off and by passers-by, until he falls in love with a girl who wears a pale-pink coat, with her mother joining in the yodelling.
This song has been sung at different points in the musical depending on the production. In the 1959 Broadway production, Maria (played by Mary Martin) sings the song in the children's bedroom to comfort them during a storm, while in the 1965 film Maria (played by Julie Andrews) and the children sing it as part of a marionette show they perform for their father. (A different song, "My Favorite Things," is performed in the bedroom for the film version.)
Many subsequent stage productions have placed this song at different points in the musical. In the 1981 West End revival with Petula Clark, Maria and the children sing it at a fair, and in the 1998 Broadway revival with Rebecca...
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