You Gotta S-m-i-l-e To Be H-a-p-p-y - Shirley Temple

Temple Shirley

Stowaway (1936)

You Gotta S-M-I-L-E To Be H-A-P-P-Y

Lyrics/Music Mack Gordon and Harry Revel

If something may upset you

Don’t ever let it get you down

Don’t wear a frown

If fortune should forsake you

Don’t ever let it make you sigh

Keep shooting high

Be a crooner, not a groaner, never kick

Here’s a spelling lesson that will do the trick

You’ve got to S-M-I-L-E

To be H-A-Double-P-Y

Keep it in mind when you’re blue

It’s easy to spell and just as easy to do

You gotta S-M-I-L-E

It’s gonna help considerably

Just keep your chin up and give it a try

And you’ll find silver lined clouds in the sky

You’ve gotta S-M-I-L-E

To be H-A-Double-P-Y

Ladies and gentlemen, just for fun

I’d like to sing this song again

The way it would be done, by…

Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, and last but not least

That swingable pair: Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire

You’ve gotta S-M-I-L-E, Oh like the birdies

Birdies birdies up in the trees.

Pretty flowers, April showers, my Mammy

Life is divine at a quarter to nine

You’ve simply gotta S-M-I-L-E

'Cos Potatoes are cheaper you see

I won’t spend a nickel

I won’t spend a sou

I just want to spend one hour with you

(kiss)(kiss)(kiss) S-M-I-L-E

Parkyakarkus with Ida, Mammy!