Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries lyrics

(When you're young,

when you're young and alive,

you discover life

is more than merely pallid

and every time it rains,

it isn't raining rain,

it's raining fruit salad!)

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Don't make it serious, life's too mysterious.

You work, you save, and you mope around

but you can't take your dough when you get out of town.

So keep repeatin', 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 never owned?

Life is just a bowl of cherries

so live, laugh at it all.

Well, life is inelegant,

happy and swell again

along the way.

(Don't take it serious,

life's too mysterious.)

It's in its merriest

when its the cherriest,

so they say.

(But you can't take your dough

when you go, go, go!)

Oh, laughter is nourishing

and you'll start flourishing

right away.

(The strongest oak must fall.)

The sweet things in life to you were just loaned

so how can you lose what you never, never, never, never owned?

Life is a inelegant,

happy and swell again

all the day.

So live and laugh at it all.

Hey, the sweet things in life to you were just a loan,

now how 'ya gonna lose what you never, never owned?

Life's a bowl of maraschinos

so live

and laugh

at it all!

Everybody eat a fruit salad!

• Artist:Paul Anka
• Album:Young, Alive and in Love (1962)