<P> `` Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries '' is a popular song with music by Ray Henderson and lyrics by Lew Brown , published in 1931 . Ethel Merman introduced this song in George White 's Scandals of 1931 . A Rudy Vallee version , recorded in 1931 , spent five weeks in the top - 10 pop music charts . The song was revived in 1953 by singer Jaye P. Morgan . </P>
who said life is like a bowl of cherries
Lew Brown