Finale in the musical "TREES!"
Story behind the song
Finale in the musical "TREES!" Sung as a duet by Jumping Jacques and Dancing Denise and the entire cast in a bucolic setting of a French country farm.
Lyrics
Jacques
Happiness is love's reward,
When love is true and each works hard.
Denise
If contentment you'd enhance,
Give your love its special chance
Jacques and Denise
Give and share, and re-enforce;
Fix disagreements at the source
"I love you" is more than a phrase
It must be lived in all its ways
Happiness is love's reward
Jacques
Search for wealth has been explored;
Expectations you can afford
Denise
Virtues acclaimed and faults ignored,
Happiness is love's reward
Jacques and Denise
Appreciate your luckiness
It will fend off loneliness
Fruitful years rejoice blissfully
Multiply and build family
Happiness is love's reward
Jacques and Denise
None achieve immortality
Grow old in love so gracefully
Jacques
Give each other room to grow
The golden rule will make it so
Cast
Jump and dance are but memories
For our Jacques and our Denise
They live now in harmony
And each year provide an added tree
We love the country and this farm
We sing happiness arm in arm
Happiness is love's reward
Happiness is love's reward