Days of Wine and Roses (song)
"Days of Wine and Roses" is a popular song, from the 1962 movie of the same name.[1]
For other uses, see Days of Wine and Roses (disambiguation)."Days of Wine and Roses"
The music was written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.[1] They received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for their work,[1] as well as the 1964 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.[2] In 2004 it finished at #39 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
The song's lyric is notable for consisting of just two complex sentences, each of which forms one of the song's two stanzas.