Artist: Frank Sinatra
From the album: Complete Capital Singles
Year: 1953
Arranger: Nelson Riddle
Lyrics by: Ted Koehler
Music by: Harold Arlen
I’ve got the world on a string,
I’m sitting on a rainbow.
Got the string around my finger.
What a world, what a life – I’m in love.
I got a song that I sing,
I can make the rain go
Anytime I move my finger
Lucky me, can’t you see I’m in love.
Life is a beautiful thing
as long as, I hold the string.
I’d be a silly so-and-so
If I should ever let it go.
(You didn’t go, don’t you know, you can never let go)
I’ve got the world on a string,
sitting on a rainbow
Got the string around my finger
What a world, what a life – I’m in love.
Life is a wonderful thing
(Life is a wonderful thing)
Long as I hold the string
I’d be a silly so-and-so
(I’d be a silly so-and-so)
if I should ever let it go.
(let go, let it go)
I’ve got the world on a string,
(And I’ve sitting on a rainbow)
Got the string around my finger.
What a world!
(What a world!)
There ain’t no other world like
(There ain’t no public life)
Hey no