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13	[[quoteright:350:[[Film/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wizard_of_oz_original1.jpg]]]]
14	[[caption-width-right:350:''Follow the rainbow over the stream\
15	Follow the fellow who follows a dream\
16	Follow, follow, follow, follow\
17	Follow the yellow brick road'']]
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19	->''"Into the woods, to get the thing\
20	That makes it worth the journeying..."''
21	-->-- '''Chorus''', ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', "Prologue"
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23	The characters in the story are all rearing and ready to go! They need something to keep their spirits up, something to heighten the moment: A MUSICAL NUMBER! This is the number that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin everyone sings when they set off on their adventure]]. A "let's get ready and go" kind of number. Something jaunty and fun.
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25	Often crosses over with the IWantSong. Compare WanderlustSong.
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27	!!Examples:
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30	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
31	* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'':
32	** "Never Say Never", which doubles as a PepTalkSong.
33	** ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': "Way Out West".
34	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'': "Journey to the Past".
35	* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': Non-musical example: "The Submarine", especially when we see the ''Ulysses'' finally descend into the ocean.
36	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': "City of Light".
37	* ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'': "On My Way" by Music/PhilCollins.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'': "We're Off to See the World".
39	* ''{{WesternAnimation/Dinosaur}}'': Non-musical example: "Across the Desert".
40	* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'': "On the Open Road".
41	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': "Go the Distance" starts off as an IWantSong before turning into this.
42	* ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'': "The Greatest Adventure" as Bilbo spends his last night at home before embarking on the journey.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeXTheGreatLongneckMigration'': "Adventuring".
44	* ''WesternAnimation/LittleGoldenBookLand'': "Get Up and Go".
45	* ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'': "The Apple Song"
46	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': "How Far I'll Go".
47	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': "A Girl Worth Fighting For".
48	* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': "Second Star to the Right" and "Following the Leader".
49	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee".
50	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'': "The Virginia Company" and its reprise.
51	* ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'': Owl sings "Adventure Is a Wonderful Thing" to the gang before sending them out on their trip, a cheerful song about all the dangers that they will face and how there's little chance that they'll come home.
52	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': "Gonna Take You There".
53	* ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'': "Born To Be Wild" plays in the background as T.J. and Becky go to pick the gang up from their camps.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': "Tomorrow Is Another Day", by Music/ShelbyFlint.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': "On the Trail We Blaze".
56	* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'': "I'm On My Way" by The Proclaimers.
57	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSingingMarine'': "The Song of the Marines".
58	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': The reprise of "When Will My Life Begin?"
59	* ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'': "Have You Been to Bahia?"
60	* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet": Non-musical example: "To the Spaceport" and "The Launch".
61	* ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuwZ5W75B5E "The Wishing Star"]], which is about the Warners leaving town to find the Wishing Star. Of course, their song causes the rest of Acme Falls to learn about the Star, provoking a race to claim the Wish.
62	* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'': "All Together Now".
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66	* ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'': Non-musical example: "Rescue". It's such a popular piece from the movie that Disney re-used it for the VHS trailer of ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' and the theatrical trailer of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} Doug's 1st Movie]]''.
67	* ''Film/BigBirdInJapan'': "Off to Kyoto". It even gives a ShoutOut to ''Film/WizardOfOz.''
68	* ''Film/{{Harriet}}'': "Goodbye Song" is a rare RealLife example. Enslaved people about to run away from their captors often sang songs to their loved ones as a coded farewell, and the film uses the actual song that UsefulNotes/HarrietTubman sang to her family.
69	* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' has a few:
70	** "The Road Goes Ever On", which also appears in the book.
71	** "A Walking Song", which appears in the book and is adapted as Pippin's song "The Edge of Night" in the movies. An unusual example in that it isn't sung while setting off, though by subject matter it is a setting-off song.
72	* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'': "Movin' Right Along".
73	* ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'': "Sailing For Adventure".
74	%%* ''Film/RoadTo'': They certainly do get around.
75	* ''Film/RoadToMorocco'': "(We're Off on the) Road to Morocco".
76	* ''Film/SummerHoliday'': "Summer Holiday", which acts more as an [[NarratingTheObvious unhelpful narrator]] than this trope, since it'd been established earlier (the song begins with ''"We're all going on a summer holiday..."'' yet it appears about ten minutes into the movie after the characters decide to do so).
77	* ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'': "A Whole Bunch of World".
78	* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': "We're Off to See the Wizard" is probably [[TropeMaker the most famous example]].
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81	[[folder:Literature]]
82	* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': When setting off from the Shire, Bilbo sings a stanza of "The Road Goes Ever On", about following the road away from home and being drawn into the wider world and towards an unknown destination. Later, when setting out himself, Frodo speaks the same stanza but replaces the line "Pursuing it with eager feet" with "Pursuing it with weary feet", reflecting his uncertainty about the journey he is setting off on.
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85	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
86	* ''Series/{{Galavant}}'' has "Hero's Journey", where Galavant, Sid, and Isabella set off on their quest to take back Isabella's kingdom from King Richard. Though Galavant is confident he'll succeed in his mission, his companions are unsure of what his plan even is.
87	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Nori asks Poppy to sing a walking song called ''This Wandering Day'', to animate the spirits and make their migration to the Grove easier.
88	* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': In the last episode, the housemates sing this while on the bus they [[spoiler:stole after robbing the bank]], as a reference to ''Music/CliffRichard'' and the film ''Film/SummerHoliday''. Too bad they [[spoiler: drive over a cliff, and the bus explodes.]]
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92	* ''Podcast/HitTheBricks'', which takes place in the Franchise/LandOfOz, has "Hit the Bricks". It's not ''quite'' as catchy as "We're Off to See the Wizard," but it's close -- and it's set on the very same yellow brick road to boot.
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95	[[folder:Theatre]]
96	* ''Theatre/{{Allegro}}'': "One Foot, Other Foot", sung by the GreekChorus when Joseph Taylor, Jr. first learns to walk. It symbolizes adventurousness and determination, and becomes his personal motto.
97	* ''Theatre/{{Anastasia}}'': From the Broadway adaptation:
98	** Crossing over with GriefSong, ''Stay, I Pray You'' is about setting off, not on an adventure, but as refugees from a Soviet purge.
99	---> "Coachman, hold the horses\
100	Let me say goodbye,\
101	Stay, I pray you\
102	Let me have a moment\
103	Let me say goodbye\
104	To bridge and river\
105	Forest and waterfall\
106	Orchard, sea, and sky\
107	Harsh and sweet and bitter to leave it all\
108	I'll bless my homeland till I die.''
109	** "We'll Go From There" is a PlayedStraight example as Anya, Dmitri, and Vlad anticipate what awaits them in Paris on a train ride.
110	* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'': "Two By Two" for the missionaries.
111	* Both 'Climbing Song 1' and 'Climbing Song 2' from ''Theatre/TheBurntPartBoys''.
112	* ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' ends with one, "Beautiful Toscana". As Cesare leaves Pisa to go back to Rome, he reflects on his time in Tuscany and the events of the story.
113	* "Strike That, Reverse It", which kicks off the second act of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', is a highly comic version of this as Willy Wonka [[DispenseWithThePleasantries rushes through greeting each of the Golden Ticket finders]] and having their guardians sign a confusing contract, all so the tour can proceed on schedule. He's in such a hurry to set off that the tune is also a PatterSong.
114	* "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from ''Theatre/HelloDolly''.
115	* "Into The Woods" from ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''.
116	* "A Weekend In The Country" from ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic''.
117	* An unproduced musical version of ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth'' from the TurnOfTheMillennium had one, "Icarus Descending", as its opening number.
118	* The title song of ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong'' uses the life-as-road-trip metaphor.
119	* "There's A Hill Beyond A Hill" from ''Theatre/{{Music in the Air}}''.
120	* "New York, New York" from ''Theatre/OnTheTown''.
121	* "I'm On My Way" from ''Theatre/PaintYourWagon'' introduces the various {{Forty Niner}}s all bound for Rumson Creek.
122	* "Addison's Trip (I'm On My Way)" from ''Theatre/RoadShow''.
123	* 'Chop To The Top' and 'Hero Is My Middle Name' from ''Theatre/TheSpongeBobMusical''.
124	* "Right" from ''Theatre/TheyrePlayingMySong''. This has a double meaning since it's sung by the two main characters as they drive to a country retreat for their first date: they're not only on the road, they're starting a relationship.
125	* "Godspeed Titanic" from ''Theatre/{{Titanic}}''.
126	* "Gotta Get Back to Hogwarts" from ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical''.
127	* "On My Way" from ''Theatre/{{Violet}}''.
128	* "The Road Goes On" from the stage adaptation of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''
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131	[[folder:Western Animation]]
132	* In the last episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'', there's a song called "Adventuring We Go" about the gang getting ready to go on a new adventure and what they might encounter.
133	* In "WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball" episode, "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E20And21TheOrigins The Origins]]", Darwin sings this type of song as he sets off on his journey to find Gumball in Part 2.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHatKnowsALotAboutThat'' has the "Traveling Song", sung by the Cat, Nick, and Sally as they are flying in the Thingamajigger to whatever location the episode is taking place. It uses the same footage every episode, with their clothes changing to fit the situation, and the third verse is always different to relate to whatever the kids are going to do. It was reanimated and shortened in the third season and ends after the second verse.
135	* The "Travel Song" from ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' is about Dora and Boots getting ready to travel to their destination.
136	%%* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' ChristmasSpecial.
137	* "Back To You" from the ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo'' Season 1 finale, "The Uncondemning".
138	* "Apples to the Core" from the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie Pinkie Apple Pie]]".
139	* The title song of the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "On the Run".
140	--> "It's time to get moving, time for us to have some fun."
141	* "Next Stop Anywhere" from the Season 2 premiere of ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''.
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