The haunting song that Charlie Brown sings in soliloquy is called "It Changes."
There is a clip of Peggy Lee doing a cover of it at this site:
http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=ynwru8e4qyygwkaqt3vz55i&r=20.asx
The site is in French, but you can figure out how to listen to the clip.
This is a great song.
"IT CHANGES"
by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Just when you think
that you know
where you stand
You've got the world
in your hand
Just when you're sure
of a dream
that you planned
That's when the scenery changes.
It changes.
Just when you think
that you know
all the facts
You hold the whole
ball of wax
You've got it made,
you can start
to relax
That's when your world rearranges
And changes.
Someone that you really cared about
Someone that you couldn't live without
Severs the ties.
All at once you're all alone and scared
All the happy "Hello"s that you shared
Change to "Good-bye"s.
Why must we pay
for "Hello"s
that we say?
Pay when we sigh
an "Adieu?"
Just when you're sure,
and you're safe,
and secure,
That's when it happens to you
It changes
Why oh why?
Copyright 1971 by Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
Publishing rights vested in Blackwood Music, Inc.
New York, N.Y. All rights reserved.
( Used without written permission, but I hope they'll understand )
In the "Snoopy, Come Home" Piano / Vocal songbook ( published in 1972 by Charles Hansen Music and Books ), Charles Schulz had this to say ( verbatim ):
"Comic strips are soundless. We draw and create many different kinds of weird words to try to give the image of certain sounds, and some of them, like "POW" have become synonymous with the medium, but when a comic strip is animated, you have to have real sounds, real voices, and real music. In our film 'Snoopy, Come Home,' we were very fortunate to have Bob and Dick Sherman volunteer to write the music. Their enthusiasm for our project and the quality of the melodies and lyrics they created, were exactly what we needed.
"I shall never forget standing in a sound booth listening to 'It Changes' for the first time. When I said it was perfect for the crucial scene in the movie, Dick grabbed my hand, and we laughed, and rejoiced in that wonderfully rare feeling that people have who are in different fields, but fit together perfectly in a common endeavor."
Does anyone have a copy of the Snoopy Come Home songbook? It's long out-of-print and I'm dying to get my hands on it!
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