[Verse 1]
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

[Refrain]
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 at it all.



[Bridge]
(speech) An imitation of Willie Howard, singing his chorus in the show

[Refrain 2]
WILLIE HOWARD:
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious
At eight each morning I have got a date
To take my plunge 'round the Empire State
You'll admit it's not the berries
In a building that's so tall
There's a guy in the show, the girls love to kiss
Get thousands a week just for crooning like this
Life is just a bowl of, aw, nuts!
So live and laugh at it all!