A Cockeyed Optimist
Julie Andrews * Track #7 On Julie Andrews Sings Richard Rodgers
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A Cockeyed Optimist by Julie Andrews
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Julie Andrews closes off Julie Andrews Sings Richard Rodgers with a slowed-down rendition of “A Cockeyed Optimist” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific.
A Cockeyed Optimist Lyrics
[Verse 1]
When the sky is a bright canary yellow
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen
So they called me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
I hear the human race
Is falling on its face
And hasn't very far to go
But every whippoorwill
Is selling me a bill
And telling me it just ain't so
[Verse 4]
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
[Verse 5]
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
A Cockeyed Optimist Q&A
Who wrote A Cockeyed Optimist's ?
A Cockeyed Optimist was written by Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers & Rodgers & Hammerstein.