Richard Rodgers feat. Various Artists
south pacific a cockeyed optimist
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When the sky is a bright canary yellow
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen
So they call me a cockeyed optimist,
Immature and incurably green!
I have heard people rantand rave and bellow
That we're done and we might as well be dead
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
And I can't get it into my head.
I hear that human race
Is falling on its face and hasn't very far to go,
But ev'ry whippoorwill is selling me a bill and telling 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 stuck like a dope! With a thing called hope, and I can't get it out of my heart.
Not this heart.