I'M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES

(Jaan Kenbrovin* and John William Kellette)

CHORUS:
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high, nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams they fade and die.
Fortune's always hiding,
I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.

I'm dreaming dreams, I'm scheming schemes,
I'm building castles high.
They're born anew, their days are few,
Just like a sweet butterfly.
And as the daylight is dawning,
They come again in the morning!

CHORUS

When shadows creep, when I'm asleep,
To lands of hope I stray!
Then at daybreak, when I awake,
My bluebird flutters away.
"Happiness, you seem so near me,
Happiness, come forth and cheer me!"

CHORUS

*
In 1919, when the song was written, James Kendis, James
Brockman, and Nat Vincent all had separate contracts with
publishers that led them to conflate their names into Jaan
Kenbrovin for credit on I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles.
For fun, you can find the ukulele chords here.
Barbershop quartets can find words & music here [pdf file].

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last updated: 02/11/2006

Listen to these
versions of the song:
1919 Blue Amberol cylinder recording manufactured by the Edison company

Kenbrovin
and Kellette
 

Other versions have
been recorded by:
Chris Tyle's Silver
Leaf Jazz Band
Sugar Blues

Les Brown
(Session #55:
1936-2001 CD)

Mrs Mills
(The Very Best
of Mrs Mills)

Charles Hart (1920)

Gordon Jenkins &
Artie Shaw (1950)
Lawrence Welk (Champagne
Music of Lawrence Welk CD)

Cyril Stapleton

Johnny Wiggs

Dean Martin
On Reprise (1973)

Moms & Dads

Oscar Peterson

Paul Thomas

Charlie Spivak

Doris Day & Jack Smith
Secret Love
Kirby Stone Four
"Go" Sound / The Kirby Stone Touch
(1959)

Westy Westenhofer
Bubbles
(2004)

Chet Atkins

Max Bygraves
Dick Hyman Group
Sweet & Lowdown
(2000)


Cliff Adams Singers
(Sing Something Simple CD)


Corliss Lamont Sings for His Family and Friends, a Medley of Favorite Hit Songs from American Musicals (1977)

Palm Court
Theatre Orchestra
(The Picnic Party CD)

Howard Alden and Bucky Pizzarelli
In a Mellow Tone