A Cockeyed Optimist Lyrics > Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
A Cockeyed Optimist Lyrics
Nellie:
When the skies are brighter canary yellow
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen,
So they called 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't get it into my head.
I hear the human race
Is fallin' on its face
And hasn't very far to go,
But ev'ry whippoorwill
Is sellin' me a bill,
And tellin' 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...
Last Update: June, 10th 2013
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific Lyrics
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- Twin Soliloquies
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Bloody Mary
- There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
- Bali Ha'i
- My Girl Back Home
- I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
- Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening Lyrics
- Wonderful Guy
- Reprise: Bali Ha'i Lyrics
- Younger Than Springtime
- Reprise: A Wonderful Guy Lyrics
- This Is How It Feels Lyrics
- Finale Act I Lyrics
- Happy Talk
- Reprise: Younger than Springtime Lyrics
- Honey Bun
- You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
- This Nearly Was Mine
- Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening Lyrics
- Reprise: Honey Bun Lyrics
- Finale Ultimo