I was looking for the full lyrics to the classic "Stormy Weather" last week. (We are playing a gig in the summer festival, so we are doing that and "Summertime" so we have every option covered)
The second verse starts:-
"Life is bare, gloom and misery everywhere"
The lyrics site had:-
"Life is bad, gloom and misery everywhere"
Now that is just wrong, it's weak, and ruins the internal rhyme, and there is a definitive original version.
No excuses!
Cheers
Dave