A popular song from 1931.
Words and music by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.
“George White’s Scandals” was a long-running string of Broadway revues produced by George White that ran from 1919–1939, modeled after the Ziegfeld Follies.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
People are queer
They’re always crowing
Scrambling and rushing about
Why don’t they stop some day
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
Chorus
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don’t be so 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 never owned
Life is just a bowl of cherries
So live and laugh at it all
Sung here by Vancha March: