PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
(Arthur Johnston / Johnny Burke)

Recorded by: Ray Anthony; Louis Armstrong; Count Basie; Tex Beneke;
Tony Bennett; Acker Bilk; Ruby Braff; Dave Brubeck; George Burns; 
June Christy; Rosemary Clooney; Perry Como; Harry Connick Jr.; 
Billy Cotton; Bing Crosby; Tony Danza; Doris Day; Jimmy Dorsey; 
Tommy Dorsey; Eddy Duchin; Eddie Fisher; The Four Freshmen; 
The Four Tops; Stan Getz; Carroll Gibbons; Dizzy Gillespie; 
Nat Gonella; Benny Goodman; Stephane Grappelli; Dick Haymes;
Woody Herman; Al Hibbler; Earl Hines; Billie Holiday; Harry James; 
Stan Kenton; Gene Krupa; Frances Langford; Turner Layton; 
Brenda Lee; Guy Lombardo; Joe Loss; Gordon MacRae; Dean Martin; 
Glenn Miller; The Mills Brothers; The Modernaires; Rose Murphy;
Red Nichols; Red Norvo; Charlie Parker; Pasadena Roof Orch.;
Mandy Patinken; Oscar Peterson; The Platters; Louis Prima; 
Della Reese; Django Reinhardt; Marty Robbins; Zoot Sims; 
Frank Sinatra; The Skyliners; Jack Teagarden; Tiny Tim; Mel Tormé; 
Arthur Tracy; Sarah Vaughan; Dinah Washington; Paul Weston; 
Andy Williams; Teddy Wilson; Lester Young; ..... and many more.


A long time ago, about a million years B.C.
The best things in life were absolutely free.

But no one appreciated a sky that was always blue
and no one anticipated a moon that was always new.

So it was planned that they should vanish now and then
and you must pay before you get them back again.

That's what storms were made for
and you shouldn't be afraid for:


Every time it rains, it rains, pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town
Make sure that your umbrella is upside down

Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you must have showers
So, when you hear it thunder, don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me

Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town
Make sure that your umbrella is upside down

Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you must have showers
So, when you hear it thunder, don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me

So take a big deep breath of the clean fresh air
Put a smile on your face be a millionaire
The streets outside 
Are paved with gold
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me


(Contributed by Cookie - January 2006)