Rodgers And Hammerstein - A Cockeyed Optimist lyrics

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Nellie:<br />

When the skies are brighter canary yellow<br />

I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen,<br />

So they called me a cockeyed optimist<br />

Immature and incurably green.<br />

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I have heard people rant and rave and bellow<br />

That we're done and we might as well be dead,<br />

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist<br />

And I can't get it into my head.<br />

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I hear the human race<br />

Is fallin' on it's face<br />

And hasn't very far to go,<br />

But ev'ry whippoorwill<br />

Is sellin' me a bill,<br />

And tellin' me it just ain't so.<br />

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I could say life is just a bowl of Jello<br />

And appear more intelligent and smart,<br />

But I'm stuck like a dope<br />

With a thing called hope,<br />

And I can't get it out of my heart!<br />

Not this heart