Songs of My Life #60 - Eric Idle - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - 1979

Songs of My Life #60 - Eric Idle - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - 1979

Good Friday as a kid tended for me to be the day where not a lot happened, except that you could always watch 'King of Kings' on TV every year without exception, and have religious programming on most of the other channels. And in the true spirit of Easter, there is only one song that I could possibly post here to honour the occasion.

From the most honestly religious movie of all time comes the song that since its inception has become the centrepiece of funerals and memorials everywhere. The only song that tells it as it is, that strips away all of the malarky and helps you to realise that we are here for such a short period of time that you have to make the most of it, and that when your time does come, to face it with a smile.

So as you come from church today, whatever hymns you may have sung in the bleachers, don't forget to purse your lips and whistle in the car on the way home. (I'll just sit here on the Deck instead of going to church and do the same thing, shall I?).