Sing A Little Jingle

Written for: (Billy Rose's) Crazy Quilt (1931)
Lyric: Mort Dixon
Additional British lyric: Leo Herbert
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1931
Original publisher: De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, Inc.

Verse 1:

I never like the ditties
That have a mournful tune;
I hate the pretty pretties,
With moon and June and spoon;
I like a song that's cheery, not teary and blue,
A song that means there's better times in view;

Chorus:

Let us sing a little jingle
To the blue skies above us,
Let us sing a little jingle
To the sweethearts who love us.
The clouds before us may look gloomy and gray,
Let's shout a chorus that will chase them away.
Let us sing a little jingle
Till the hard times are over,
For a happy jing-a-lingle
Is a shortcut to clover.
There'll come a great day, cheer up, my boy,
Let us sing a little jingle of joy.

Verse 2 (from British sheet music):

A cheerful little earful
I welcome any time;
Though troubles may be fearful,
A smile is still no crime;
It brightens up the gray days and gives us new hope,
For what's the use to sit around and mope?

[Chorus]