Cheerful Little Earful
The three saxophones got a role in this little play with an uplifting tune from the otherwise critical year of 1930. It was composed by Harry Warren, and the lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Billy Rose are quite witty and positive:
There's a cheerful little earful
Gosh I miss it something fearful
And this cheerful little earful
Is the well known “I love you.”
Stocks can go down, bus'ness slow down
But the milk and honey flow down
With a cheerful little earful
Of the well known “I love you.”
In ev'ry play it's a set phrase
What the public get phrase
But as a pet phrase it'll do do do
Poopa roo-it, Soft and cu-it
Make me happy you can do it.
With a cheerful little earful
Of the well known “I love you.”