Ethel Merman, Rudy Vallee (#3 in 1931),
The Hi-Lo’s
Key of Eb
Life is just a bowl of cherries;
Don’t make it serious;
Life’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.
optional tag ending (courtesy of Toni Tennille):
So live and laugh at it,
You don't know the half of it,
Live and laugh at it all