April Showers – On the Rocks

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by Silvers and de Sylva

Composed by Louis Silvers and written by B.G. De Sylva, this song debuted in the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo and was performed by Al Jolson.

This song became a popular cover by several jazz and traditional pop singers, including Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Margaret Whiting, Eddie Fisher, Eydie Gorme, Mel Torme and Cab Calloway. R&B/Soul singer Jackie Wilson also included the song on his Al Jolson tribute album, Nowstalgia…You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet, in 1961.

This song was featured in the 1948 film musical April Showers, starring Jack Carson and Ann Sothern as a married couple in a struggling vaudeville act.

This song has a rare claim to fame in that it was sung in a courtroom (by a judge). According to a report in the March 7, 1953 issue of the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper filed from Detroit, “Circuit Judge Vincent M. Brennan gave his decision in a contract suit between a singer and an orchestra leader,” and after recessing the court, “stepped down from the bench and sang ‘April Showers’ to prove he was ‘musically qualified’ to decide the case.”

TENOR UKE FINGERING

Key of [A]

Intro: (one downstroke on each chord of first verse) 
[C] Life is not a [G] highway strewn with [C] flowers [G] 
[C] Still it holds a [G] goodly share of [C] bliss [B7] 
[Em] When the sun gives [B7] way to April [Em] showers [A7] 
[Dm] Here's the point that [D7] you should never [G] miss [G7] 

{ MAIN CHORUS } - - - [NC] Though April [G7] Showers may come your [C] way, they bring the [G7] flowers that bloom in [C] May. 
So if it's [A7] raining have no re[Dm]grets, because [D7] it isn't raining rain you know - It's [G7] raining violets 

{ VERSE } - - - [NC] And where you [G7] see clouds upon the [C] hills,  you soon will [A7] see crowds of [Dm] daffo[A7]dils. [Dm] 
So keep on [F] looking for a [Fm] bluebird, and [C] listening for his [A7] song - 
When[Dm]ever April [G7] showers come a[C]long [Gdim] [G7] 

{c: } - - - KAZOO INSTRUMENTAL: 

{ MAIN CHORUS }
{ VERSE } - - -
When[Dm]ever April [G7] showers come a[C]long [C] [G7] [C]