Life is Just A Bowl of Cherries
Music and Lyrics by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson
Key: Bb
Copyright 1931

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Verse 1:

Bb
People are queer,
Fm             G7
They’re always crowing
Cm             Ebm       F7
Scrambling and rushing a bout

Bb                       Cm7F7
Why don’t they stop some day
Cm7          F7          Bb BbdimCm7F7
Address them-selves this way

Bb
Why are we here?
Fm           G7
Where are we going?

Cm            D7       Gm
It’ time that we found out
Gm7[Cm6

C7        Gm7         C7
We’re not here to stay
           Ebm   G7 Gb7F7 F7+5
We’re on a short holi-day

Chorus:

Bb      F7             Gm7
Life is just a bowl of cherries
              Bdim
Don’t make it serious
              F7
Life’s too mysterious

    Cm       Gb7
You work you save
    Bb Fm   G7
You wor -ry so,
        Cm              F7
But you can’t take your dough
         C9 Gb7F7
When you go go go

   Bb     F7
So keep repeating
         Gm7
It’s the berries
    Fm        G7       Cm  G7Cm
The strongest oak must fall

    Edim
The sweet things in life
   Dm            G7
To you were just loaned
    Cm          F7
But how can you lose
     C7           F7
What you’ve never owned

Bb      F7     Fm     G7
Life is just a bowl of cherries
   C7       Cm7      F7 Bb  EbdimF7
So live and laugh at it all

Chorus Repeat & End With:

   C7       Cm7      F7 Bb
So live and laugh at it all

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