I was cleaning up some old hard drives and I came across these lyrics that someone sent me back in 2021. If the lyricist is reading this, please let me know in the comments section so I can credit you.
Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
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LYRICS
When he was just a little boy
He asked his father, “What will I be?”
He said, “Don’t worry, follow my lead
And live your life tax-free.”
Que será, será
I think we can all agree
He’ll end up in cellblock 3
Que será, será
What will be, will be
When he grew up and fell in lust
He asked his lovers, “Am I too brash?”
They’d always answer night after night
“Would you please pay with cash?”
Que será, será
It’s really not hard to see
him living in cellblock 3
Que será, será
What will be, will be
When he got beat and cried boo-hoo
He asked his lackeys what should I spew?
They said, “No problem, say it’s not true
Then you can launch a coup.”
Que será, será
The judges ignored his plea
He’s closer to cellblock 3
Que será, será
What will be, will be
When he stole secrets all in plain view
He asked his lawyer, “What should I do”?
They said, “Call Rudy, and pay your bill
This one is all on you!”
Que será, será
How is it that he’s still free?
He’ll soon be in cellblock 3
Que será, será
What will be, will be
When he is tried and put away
The warden will see him, and he will say,
“You’re just a traitor who lived tax-free.
Welcome to cellblock 3!”
Que será, será
him living in cellblock 3
Que será, será
What will be, will be
Que será, será
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL QUE SERÅ
” Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) ” is a 1956 song composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans . It became famous after being performed by Doris Day in Alfred Hitchcock ‘s 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much . The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that same year.
The song, recorded by Columbia Records (catalog number 40704), reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the UK Singles Chart. From 1968 to 1973, it was used as the theme song for the sitcom The Doris Day Show . The song’s three verses progress through the narrator’s life: childhood, adolescence and first love, and adulthood when the narrator has children of her own. It reached the Billboard charts in July 1956 and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1956. This was the third Oscar in this category for Livingston and Evans, who had previously won in 1948 and 1950. In September 1965, the song reached number one on the Australian singles chart in a version sung by Normie Rowe.
The song’s popularity has led to curiosity about the origins of the main phrase and the language itself. Both its Spanish spelling (used by Livingston and Evans) and an Italian version (“che sarà sarà”) are first documented in the 16th century as English heraldic mottos. The Spanish form appears on a bronze plaque in St. Nicholas Church, Thames Ditton, Surrey, in 1559. In its Italian form, the phrase was first adopted as a family motto either by John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford , or by his son, Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford . Some sources claim that the motto was adopted by the father after his experience at the Battle of Pavia (1525) and that it was inscribed on his tomb (1555).
Shortly after its adoption as a heraldic motto, it appeared in Christopher Marlowe ‘s play , Doctor Faustus (written around 1590 and first published in 1604), the text of which (Act 1, Scene 1) contains a phrase with the archaic Italian spelling “Che sera, sera / What will be, shall be.” At the beginning of the 17th century , the saying began to appear in the speech and thoughts of fictional characters as a spontaneous expression of a fatalistic attitude, but always within an English-speaking context.
Livingston and Evans both had some knowledge of Spanish, having worked together as musicians early in their careers on cruise ships traveling to the Caribbean and South America. Composer Jay Livingston had seen the 1954 film The Barefoot Contessa , directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , in which an Italian family has the motto “Che sarà sarà” carved in stone at their ancestral mansion. He immediately jotted down the phrase as a possible song title, and lyricist Ray Evans later gave it the Spanish spelling because, as he said, “there are a lot of Spanish speakers in the world . ”
Due to the song’s popularity and multiple translations, the phrase has been adopted by countries around the world as titles for books, movies, restaurants, holiday programs, airplanes, and racehorses.