LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES
From the Broadway show "George White's Scandals Of 1931"
(Ray Henderson / Lew Brown)
Rudy Vallée - 1931
Bing Crosby - 1931
The Mills Brothers - 1931
Jack ylton & His Orch. (vocal Pat O'Malley) - 1931
Roy Fox & His Band (vocal: Al Bowlly) - 1931
Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson - 1931
Layton & Johnstone - 1931
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - 1951
Jaye P. Morgan - 1954
Carol Sloane - 1961
Carmen McRae - 1965
Maxine Brown - 1978
Also recorded by: Doris Day; Teresa Brewer;
Johnny Mathis; Linda Tate; Debbie Reynolds;
Ethel Merman; Judy Garland; Billy Eckstine;
Rita Moreno; Stephanie Pope; Toni Tennille;
The Hi-Lo`s; The Platters; Toni Harper;
Perry Como & Brenda Lee: ...... and others.
People are queer, they're always crowing, scrambling and rushing about
Why don't they stop someday, address themselves this way?
Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time that we found out
We're not here to stay; we're on a short holiday
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious
You work, you save, you worry so
But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go
So keep repeating it's the berries
The strongest oak must fall
The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you've never owned?
Life is just a bowl of cherries
So live and laugh at it all
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious
At eight each morning I have got a date
To take my plunge 'round the Empire State
You'll admit it's not the berries
In a building that's so tall
There's a guy in the show, the girls love to kiss
Get thousands a week just for crooning like this
Life is just a bowl of . . . aw, nuts!
So live and laugh at it all!