South Pacific movie - 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 its 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...<br>

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