A Cockeyed Optimist

Mary Martin * Track #3 On South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Mary Martin

1949

A Cockeyed Optimist by Mary Martin

Performed by

Mary Martin

Produced by

Goddard Lieberson

Writed by

Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein

About

Even though they have not known each other for very long, a U.S. Navy nurse named Nellie Forbush and a French plantation owner named Emile de Becque fall in love. Many people are afraid of the outcome of the war, so Nellie reassures Emile that everything will turn out fine.

A Cockeyed Optimist Lyrics

[NELLIE]
When the sky is bright 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 whip-poor-will
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

A Cockeyed Optimist Q&A

Who wrote A Cockeyed Optimist's ?

A Cockeyed Optimist was written by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein.