Deanna Durbin - IT'S FOOLISH BUT IT'S FUN

This song is splitted into two parts in SPRING PARADE movie (1940). Here it's in full:
IT'S FOOLISH BUT IT'S FUN
I love to climb an apple tree
Though apples green are bad for me
And I'll be sick as I can be
It's foolish but it's fun
While wise men seek your time and space
And get all wrinkled in the face
From loafing in some shady place
It's foolish but it's fun
If it should ever come to pass
That I inherit wealth
I'll eat and drink and drink and eat
Until I wreck my health
I love to ramble over lea
And chase the busy bumble bee
Though the bee may light on me
It's foolish but it's fun
When thunder storms put folks to rout
And no one dares to venture out
That's when I love to slosh about
It's foolish but it's fun
I like to be on friendly terms
With pollywogs and mangle worms
And all the very deadly germs
It's foolish but it's fun
I love to sit beside a brook
And wait for fish to bite
And though they never do
It's nice to think perhaps they might
While others climb the mountains High
Beneath the tree I love to lie
And watch the snails go whizzing by
It's foolish but it's fun
I want to sing I want to waltz
My heart is doing somersaults
I love this world with all its faults
It's foolish but it's fun
I want to walk a garden wall
Especially a wall that's tall
And if I fall I fall that's all
It's foolish but it's fun
I want to climb a steeple
And I want to ring a bell
So I can tell the people
That I like them all so well
The grass is green the sky is blue
The cows go moo the cuckoos coo
I want to be a cuckoo too
It's cuckoo but it's fun

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Deanna
• Durbin
• IT'S
• FOOLISH
• BUT
• FUN

[ddurbinfan]

INgrooves deleted the sound, sorry :-(

[antoniodiniz107]

Alan Titchmarch played this wordeful piece of delight on his show this week. It's really awesome. What's the Spring Parade? Sorry to ask.

[ddurbinfan]

"Spring parade" is one of the best movies/musicals of all time. You can find it in my playlists.

[SonjaHenieFilmFan]

Which song or tune is the organ playing?

[sailcat23]

If anybody lives in the Bucks County, Pa area, there is a radio station that broadcasts out of Levittown which is 1490 WBCB. There is a great radio show that is on everyday at 10 called "Sunshine Music Memories" where I have heard this song plus many others before 1950. Al Jolson and Eddy Cantor are big favorites. I am a big fan of this show and it really makes my day. Its the only show of kind, I think. Think station of the stars. WPEN, from Philadelphia, which this program reminds me of.

[Operafilli]

I have all Deanna's movies. This song should be taught in schools...such a great way to start the day. And only needs a one octave plus one note range so most any kid could manage it. Also great for enunciation.

Love the goat and her czardas with Mischa Auer.

[letterboy1]

Interesting that there are some folks here who relate the song to Silent Hunter 3. I just so happened to included it in my gramophone folder in Silent Hunter 5. Lots of great music from that era. The Andrews Sisters also rock! Rum and Coca Cola anyone?

[dpoissant100]

This one of my favorite Deanna songs

[juggooo]

@paulspalace : Same goes for me , nothing like a nice song while sailing the seas in an U-boat :) (silent hunter III)

Took me a time to figure out who sung this song.

I love it :)

[feelthemusic87]

My nan loves this song. :)