Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Dubin/Warren)

This song was a hit song written by Al Dubin & Harry Warren in 1933. They composed it for the 1934 film Moulin Rouge in which it was performed by the female lead Constance Bennett. It is a tango.

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Not to be confused with a hit song with the same title by the band Green Day from their 2004 American Idiot album.

It has been covered by many artists over the years. This was Tony Bennett's debut single in 1950 & it went on to be one of his signature songs. He later sang it as a duet with Sting on his 2006 Duets: An American Classic album.

I walk along the street of sorrow
The boulevard of broken dreams
Where gigolo & gigolette can take a kiss without regret
So they forget their broken dreams

You laugh tonight & cry tomorrow
When you behold your shattered schemes
Gigolo & gigolette wake up to find their eyes are wet
With tears that tell of broken dreams

(bridge) Here is where you'll always find me
Always walking up and down
But I left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town

The joy that you find here you borrow
You cannot keep it long it seems
But gigolo & gigolette still sing a song & dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams

- lyrics by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren. (c) 1933. All rights reserved.