A Cockeyed Optimist lyrics - Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific

Cover for Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific album
Album lyrics:
  1. Dites-Moi
  2. A Cockeyed Optimist
  3. Twin Soliloquies 
  4. Twin Soliloquies
  5. Some Enchanted Evening
  6. Bloody Mary
  7. There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
  8. Bali Ha'i
  9. My Girl Back Home
  10. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
  11. Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening 
  12. Wonderful Guy
  13. Reprise: Bali Ha'i 
  14. Younger Than Springtime
  15. Reprise: A Wonderful Guy 
  16. This Is How It Feels 
  17. Finale Act I 
  18. Happy Talk
  19. Reprise: Younger than Springtime 
  20. Honey Bun
  21. You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
  22. This Nearly Was Mine
  23. Reprise: Some Enchanted Evening 
  24. Reprise: Honey Bun 
  25. Finale Ultimo

A Cockeyed Optimist lyrics

A Cockeyed Optimist


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


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