Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries

Words & Music by Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
Recorded by Jaye P. Morgan, 1954 (#26)
Sung in the 1931 revue "George White's Scandals" by Ethel Merman

A        D9    Cdim     AM7     F#m
Life is just a bowl of cherries

 A            Edim    Bm7                E7/9
Don't make it serious,     life's too mysterious 

     D        Cdim      A    C#m7-5
You work, you save, you worry  so 

       D9              E7/6 Bm7-5    F#m Cdim E7
But ya can't take your dough when you go, go, go

A        D9    Cdim      AM7     F#m
Keep repeating "It's the berries, 

     D        F#7      Bm     Bm7/E
The strongest oak must fall"

     D9             Cdim    AM7           F#7
The sweet things in life to you were just loaned

   D9     Cdim  E7 C#m7-5  B7           E7
So how can you lose what  you've never owned? 

A        D9    Cdim     F#7  
Life is just a bowl of cherries 

   B7  Cdim  E7/9   Bm7-5 A    Edim  E7
So live and laugh at it   all 




A        D9    Cdim     AM7             F#m
Life is just a bowl of cherries, that's right,

      A            Edim    Bm7                E7/9
Just don't make it serious,    life is too mysterious

     D           Cdim        B7        A    F#7
You work and you save, and, baby, you worry so

C#m7-5     D9       Bm7-5   Cdim      E7     F#m Cdim E7
 But you can't take nothin' with you when you go, go, go

Fdim A        D9    Cdim      AM7     F#m
 So keep repeating "It's the berries, 

     Gdim     F#7      Bm     Bm7/E
The strongest oak must fall"

Bm7-5      D9   Bm7-5     Cdim    AM7           F#7
 Now, the sweet things in life to you were just loaned

   D9     Cdim  E7 C#m7-5  B7         E7
So how can you lose what you've never owned? 

Cdim  A      D9     Cdim     F#7  
 Oh, life is just a bowl of cherries 

Fdim  B7  Cdim         B7
 So live while you're livin' 

     D     Cdim  E7/9  E7 Cdim A  D9  Dm6  Fdim A6
And laugh, baby, laugh at  it all.


Thanks to Ron Hontz (Ronhontz@att.net) for the lyric transcription on which this version is based.


 
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