From “Seven Brides For Seven Brothers”, 1954.
Words by Johnny Mercer.
Music by Gene de Paul.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Ding-dong ding-a-ling-dong
Were the steeple bells ever quite as gay?
Wonderful, wonderful day
Bluebirds in the bluebells sing a song
To send me along my way
Wonderful, wonderful day
Though I’ve got my own up
I’m as grown-up as can be
Seems I’ve gone and flown up
To a bright, merry, airy, fairy-land
And so you’ll forgive me
If I simply throw out my chest and say
Beautiful, glorious, heavenly, marvelous
Wonderful, wonderful day