Hit the Road to Dreamland

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"Hit the Road to Dreamland" is a popular song. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

The song was introduced in 1942 in the wartime musical film Star-Spangled Rhythm. It was the rhythmic highlight of the film, set in the dinning car of a train with the clickity-clack of the train wheels pacing the song's rhythm. Arlen was a master of tricky jazz rhythms and Mercer's playful colloquial lyric phrases match the music exquisitely.^{[citation needed]}