A Cockeyed Optimist-Kelli O'Hara

[ti:A Cockeyed Optimist] [ar:Various Artists] [al:South Pacific (The New Broadway Cast Recording)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Cockeyed Optimist - Kelli O'Hara [00:09.64]When the skies are brighter canary yellow [00:14.40] [00:16.10]I forget every cloud I've ever seen [00:18.94] [00:20.36]So they called me a cockeyed optimist [00:24.03] [00:24.89]Immature and incurably green [00:27.08] [00:29.16]I have heard people rant and rave and bellow [00:32.44] [00:33.62]That we're done and we might as well be dead [00:36.62] [00:37.86]But I'm only a cockeyed optimist [00:40.74] [00:42.14]And I can't get it into my head [00:45.47] [00:46.91]I hear the human race [00:48.97]Is falling on its face [00:50.51] [00:51.12]And hasn't very far to go [00:54.03] [00:55.95]But every whippoorwill [00:57.34] [00:58.32]Is selling me a bill [00:59.82] [01:00.53]And telling me it just ain't so [01:03.17] [01:04.63]I could say life is just a bowl of Jello [01:07.80] [01:09.05]And appear more intelligent and smart [01:11.63] [01:13.41]But I'm stuck like a dope [01:15.17] [01:15.85]With a thing called hope [01:17.82]And I can't get it out of my heart [01:21.57] [01:23.02]Not this heart