It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
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"It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow" is a song written in 1938 by composer Irving Berlin.
The song came out of a conversation between songwriter Irving Berlin and British / Hungarian film producer Alexander Korda in a New York taxi cab in 1938. The Munich Agreement had just depressed both men. Korda asked Berlin if he had written a war song yet, and a few blocks later Berlin came up with the tune and lyrics.[1][2]
It was first performed in London at the start of the war in 1939 before its American release, which caused a sensation at the time. Berlin used it in his 1940 musical Louisiana Purchase, in which it describes feelings of despair and hope during the American Great Depression, of the 1930s.[3] Irene Bordoni performed the song on the opening night.[4] In the film version of Louisiana Purchase in 1941, the song was performed by a black chorus.[5]
Memorable chorus
The song contains the following chorus by which it is popularly known.
- It's a lovely day tomorrow
- Tomorrow is a lovely day
- Come and feast your tear dimmed eyes
- On tomorrow's clear blue skies.
- If today your heart is weary
- If ev'ry little thing looks grey
- Just forget your troubles and learn to say
- Tomorrow is a lovely day.
