"Blue Skies" — Irving Berlin's deceptively cheerful standard.
Writer(s): irving berlin
Blue skies, smilin at me
Nothin but blues skies do I see
Bluebirds singin a song
Nothin but bluebirds all day long
All the days are hurryin by
When youre in love, my how they fly
Blue days, all of them gone
Nothin but blue skies from now on
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- Written by Irving Berlin in 1926. The relentlessly optimistic lyric — nothing but blue skies — delivered with Sinatra's knowing awareness that blue skies don't last. The Capitol recordings gave the cheerful standards a productive undercurrent of irony.