People are queer, they're always
Crowing, scrambling and rushing about
Why don't they stop someday
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

Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious, it'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
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