From “ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1927,” 1927.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover Art Henry Clive (unsigned).
Copyright ©25 Aug 1927.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
While you hurry thru life and worry
I’m painting fanciful pictures
A dreamer am I, my home is the sky
You may treasure each earthly pleasure
While I keep roaming the heavens
I’d rather be there just walking on air
Chorus
I’m living up in the clouds
Chasing a rainbow of girls
Far from the maddening crowds
Gathering dewdrops for pearls
Castles in the air up there to screen us
Nothing but the stars and Mars
And Venus coming between us
I’m happy up in the clouds
Chasing a rainbow of girls
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: