Lyr Req: Save Your Sorrow (for Tomorrow)

Subject: Save all of your sorrows for tomorrow
From: Louie Roy
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 08:49 PM

I have no idea of the author or if this is the correct title all help appreciated and thanks for your help in advance Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Save all of your sorrows for tomorro
From: Allan C.
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 09:32 PM

Could you be talking about Pack Up Your Sorrows ?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Save all of your sorrows for tomorro
From: Louie Roy
Date: 03 Jun 01 - 02:15 PM

Thank you Allen C for posting Pack Up Your Sorrows to my request.This is not the tune I'm looking for,but it certainly has some touching word and I will copy and add to my collection.The song I'm looking for was written before 1930 and these are the only words that I remember.Thanks again Allen Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Save all of your sorrows for tomorro
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 12:13 AM

"Save Your Sorrows for Tomorrow" was recorded by Tiny Tim on his album Live! At The Royal Albert Hall.

... by Frankie Laine, on the 6-CD boxed set I Believe

... and by Glen Gray & His Casa Loma Orchestra, on Live From The Meadowbrook Ballroom.

That's all the info I was able to find on the Internet.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Save all of your sorrows for tomorrow
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:13 PM

"Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow" w. B. G. De Sylva

Wondering if that is what you're looking for. It was written in 1925. Music was by Al Sherman.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Save all of your sorrows for tomorrow
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 10:35 PM

Here's the catalog data from Indiana University Sheet Music Collections:

Title: Save your sorrow
Title: For to-morrow
Composer: Sherman, Al
Lyricist: DeSylva, B. G. (Buddy Gard), 1896-1950
Performer: Joe Darcy
Publisher: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc.
Place of publication: New York
Date of publication: 1925
Call Number: M1 .D48 Box: 126 Item: 047
Performance Medium: Piano and Voice (with lyrics)
First Line: People love to say waiting doesn't pay never put off anything
Chorus First Line: Save your sorrow for tomorrow, smile a while today, work is play

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Save all of your sorrows for tomorrow
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 12:49 PM

I have listened to several sound samples. This seems to be the complete chorus. There is also a verse that I haven't found on any recordings.

Save your sorrow for tomorrow. Smile a while today.
Work is play for anyone that hums.
Smile today. Tomorrow never comes.
If you cheer up, skies will clear up. Clouds will pass away.
Save your sorrow for tomorrow. Smile a while today.

Subject: Lyr Add: SAVE YOUR SORROW (FOR TOMORROW)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 01:51 PM

I think the opening verse and chorus are pretty close to what DeSylva & Sherman wrote in 1925, but the rest (I think) was added specifically for Giselle MacKenzie around 1960, and is full of topical references. I don't know who wrote them.


SAVE YOUR SORROW (FOR TOMORROW)
As sung by Gisele MacKenzie on "In Person at the Empire Room" (1960)

VERSE: People often say worry doesn't pay.
Never put off anything you can do today.
Wise as that may be, I must disagree,
For when you have tears to shed, take a tip from me:

CHORUS: Save your sorrow for tomorrow; smile awhile today.
Work is play to anyone that hums.
Live for today; tomorrow never comes.
If you cheer up, skies will clear up; clouds will pass away.
So save your sorrow for tomorrow; smile awhile today.

(SPOKEN: Don't go 'way; second chorus:)

Just tell yourself things couldn't be sweeter.
Tell yourself that there's no Nikita.
Suppose the world should come to an end.
Think of all the fun you've had, my friend.
You hear a siren and your nerves start squirmin'.
That ain't an air raid; it's just Ethel Merman.
The point is, if you worry, my advice is:
You're only startin'; think of the Waldorf prices.
Then think of all the countless hankies
Soaked with tears for the New York Yankees.
The drinkin' chums they threw out of doors
The day they started wreckin' good ol' Toots Shor's,
Instead of taxes easin', they'll get tighter.
Hope that made your night a little bit brighter.
But you will admit that I have tried, Clyde.
Anyone care to join me in a gang suicide?
Come on, let's cheer up.
Skies won't clear up.
They'll turn a lovely gray.
I feel gloomy,
And Dinah Shore can sue me.
So can Chevrolet.
Now, when gloom is king, that's the time to sing.
A thousand years from now it won't mean a darn thing,
So smile a great big smile today.
Have a ball; hooray!
Think of all you'll pay.
Smile your teeth away.
I feel I'm turnin' blue.

Subject: Lyr Add: SAVE YOUR SORROW (FOR TOMORROW)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Mar 19 - 09:57 PM

From the sheet music at Baylor University:

SAVE YOUR SORROW (FOR TO-MORROW)
Words by B. G. De Sylva; music by Al. Sherman; ©1925.

1. People love to say
Waiting doesn't pay.
Never put off anything you can do today.
Wise as that may be,
I must disagree,
For when you have tears to shed, take this tip from me:

CHORUS: Save your sorrow for tomorrow.
Smile awhile today.
Work is play to anyone that hums.
Live today; tomorrow never comes.
If you cheer up, skies will clear up.
Clouds will pass away.
Save your sorrow for tomorrow.
Smile awhile today.

2. If you strike a day
When things come your way,
It's a very easy thing to be blithe and gay;
But when gloom is king,
That's the time to sing.
In a hundred years from now, it won't mean a thing.