The song is about gratitude even if things go wrong. However the whimsy continues in subsequent verses, “Thanks for the memory/ Of faults that you forgave/ Rainbows on a wave/ And stockings in the basin when a fellow needs a shave/ I thank you so much.” Finally, a compromise was reached that has Hope singing: "That weekend at Niagara when we hardly saw the falls." The lyricist never forgave this censorship considering it ridiculously prissy and ruinous for the song. Robin was furious and a bitter argument ensued. Robin’s original lyrics were: "That weekend at Niagara when we never saw the falls." The line was rejected by the film producers who feared it was too suggestive. One verse of the song conjures up the sophisticated couple’s honeymoon. The clever lyrics written by Leo Robin are whimsical and tell the story of the resiliency of young love and life, “Many's the time that we feasted/ And many's the time that we fasted/ Oh well, it was swell while it lasted/ We did have fun, and no harm done.” And each performance for those in uniform would be capped off with the song that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1938 and became Hope’s signature for the rest of his life. He agreed and started a partnership with the USO that would last more than half a century. The attack on Pearl Harbor a few months after the March Field show caused Hope to try to enlist in the Armed Forces but he was in his late 30s and was told he could do more for the cause as an entertainer. He said, ‘Why don’t you think about bringing your show out here? There’s lots of guys and I know they would love to see you.’”Īfter that very first performance Hope was dedicated to entertaining the troops for the rest of his life.
“It turns out one of dad’s writers had a brother who was stationed in March Field in Riverside, California.
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