Lyrics for a lousy time

I have some song lyrics to cheer us all up. The song is "Life is just a bowl of cherries" and it was written back in the Depression by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson.
It goes something like this:
Life is just a bowl of cherries,
Don't take it serious, life is too mysterious.
You work and slave, you worry so
But you can't take your dough
When you go, go, go.
The best things in life to you were just loaned,
So how can you lose what you never owned.
Keep repeating it's the berries
And live and laugh at it all.
To get the maximum enjoyment listen to the version the Hi Lo's did in 1956. They are the greatest vocal group ever in my opinion. The last time I sang it was when I was driving from Paris to London (you can do that now) with my English pals, Bob and Steve. They griped that life was not a bowl of cherries and when I broke into "I talk to the trees but they don't listen to me" from Paint Your Wagon, they sneered that of course they don't listen you idiot, they're trees. However, all three of us sang a rousing rendition of "There'll always be an England".

Where is our Lawrence of Afghanistan?

It's hard to imagine that our troops will do any better in Afghanistan than the British, the Russians and even Alexander the Great. This is a country that is not hospitable to foreigners. So when I see Gen. McCrystal jogging around the US compound in perfect West Point style I know we're not going to win. History is going to win. My suggestion will never be taken seriously but I think we need a charismatic American leader who steps out of his uniform, grows a beard, goes native, and learns the language. Maybe the Afghans would follow him. But then he would have more power than the Pentagon and that won't happen. But it could turn the trick just as Lawrence of Arabia did in WWI.