Lena Horne
a cock eyed optimist live
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When the sky is a bright canary yellow
I forget every cloud I've ever seen
So they call me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green
I have heard people rant and rave and bellow
That we're done and we might as well be dead
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
And I can can't get it into my head
I hear the human race
Is falling on its face
And hasn't very far to go
But every whip-poor-will
Is selling me a bill
And tell me it just ain't so
I could say life is just a bowl of jello
And appear more intelligent and smart
But I'm suck like a dope
With a thing called hope
And I can't get it into my heart
Not this heart
- Album:
- Green Wave
- Miscellaneous
- Elf: Music From The Major Motion Picture
- The Lena Horne Easter Collection
- But Beautiful
- Live and Lovely Lena Horne
- Lena Horne
- The Songs of Lena Horne, Vol. 3
- Let Me Love You and Other Live Hits
- The Essential Lena Horne Collection, Vol. 3
- New York Jazz Club
- Eight Classic Albums
- Platinum Fine Jazz Ladies
- The Best Of Lena Horne
- Seasons Of A Life
- Planet Jazz
- Stormy Weather
- Swing! The Ultimate Big Band Album
- Capitol Sings Jerome Kern: "The Song Is You"
- Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer: “Too Marvellous For Words”