…………..just a bowl of Cherries.
(On the terrace in Faugeres)
And then I got curious.
Where did the song come from?
When was it written?
It turns out that it is an original Tin Pan Alley hit, written in 1931.
Here are the lyrics
(and I’m not saying that they constitute my philosophy of life)
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don’t take 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,
Laugh and love
Live and laugh at it all!
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, aha!
Laugh and love
Live and laugh,
Laugh and love,
Live and laugh at it all!
Which in turn gives me an interesting footnote;
“The Berries” is not, after all, an original Cork expression, unless it travelled to Old Grey Whistle Land.
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