Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, January 13, 1952)

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 slave, 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 chair of oldies

So live and laugh at it all

In our eleventh edition of "George White Scandals," the year 1931

Willie Howard had his chorus of "Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries

" And I'd like to give you the lyrics the way he did them

Life is just a bowl of cherries

Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious

Now, every morning at half past eight

I have to take my plunge through the Empire State

Then on in to Pennsylvania

To Hess Brothers in Allentown, PA

Now, there's a guy in this show the girls like to kiss

He gets thousands a week for just crooning like this

"My dime is your dime, oh, nuts!"

So live and laugh at it all