The Road Goes On - A.R.Rahman, Värttinä, Christopher Nightingale

SAM

There’s a road, calling you to stray.

Step by step, pulling you away.

SAM/FRODO (RANGERS)

Under moon and star.

Take the road, no matter how far.

Where it leads, no-one ever knows.

Don’t look back, follow where it goes.

Far beyond the sun.

Take the road, wherever it runs.

The road goes on, ever ever on.

Hill by hill, mile by mile.

Field by field, stile by stile.

The road goes on, ever ever on.

The road goes on, ever ever on.

(Mountain and valley and pasture and meadow).

Moor by moor, glen by glen.

(Stretching unending for mile after mile).

Vale by vale, fen by fen.

(Fenland and moorland and shoreline and canyon).

The road goes on, ever ever on.

(Bordered by hurdle and hedgerow and stile).

PIPPIN

One more mile, then it’s time to eat.

Pick some pears, succulent and sweet.

PIPPIN/MERRY

To the farthest shore.

Take the road, a hundred miles more.

MERRY

Sweet pink trout, tickled from a stream.

Milk a goat, churn it into cream.

MERRY/PIPPIN (FRODO/SAM)

Far beyond the sun

Take the road wherever it runs.

The road goes on, ever ever on.

(See the road flows past your doorstep).

Moor by moor, glen by glen.

(Calling for your feet to stray).

Vale by vale, fen by fen.

(Like a deep and rolling river, it will sweep them far away).

The road goes on, ever ever on.

ALL

Just beyond the far horizon.

Lies a waiting world unknown.

Like the dawn it’s beauty beckons.

With a wonder all it’s own.

ELVES

Numenna!

Auta i re.

Yallume!

Hilya!

Numenna!

Auta i re.

Yallume!

Hilya!

VOCALIZING

Numenna!

Auta i re.

Yallume!

Hilya!

HOBBITS

Mountain and valley and pasture and meadow.

Stretching unending for mile after mile.

Fenland and moorland and shoreline and canyon.

Bordered by hurdle and hedgerow and stile.

Mountain and valley and pasture and meadow.

Stretching unending for mile after mile.

Fenland and moorland and shoreline and canyon.

Bordered by hurdle and hedgerow and stile.