from musical comedy "Sitting Pretty"
Music by Jerome Kern
Words by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
1924
Those who make the nation's songs (so much more admirable than its laws) advise us to look for the silver lining, to seek the Blue Bird, to put all our troubles in a great big box and sit on the lid and grin. Alice Corker had been unable to follow this counsel.
Bill the Conqueror. 2.II Bill Undertakes a Mission