From the 1929 film “Sunny Side Up”
words and music by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There’s one thing to think of when you’re blue
There are others much worse off than you
If a load of trouble should arrive
Laugh and say: “It’s great to be alive”
Chorus
Keep your sunny side up, up
Hide the side that gets blue
If you have nine sons in a row
Baseball teams make money, you know
Keep your funny side up, up
Let your laughter come thru do
Stand upon your legs, be like two fried eggs
Keep your sunny side up
- Life can be a pleasure or a pain
Good or bad, successful, or in vain
Happiness is just a point of view
If you’d have it, here’s the thing to do
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: