Cockeyed Optimist-Jim Tomlinson/Matt Skelton/Dave Newton/Dave Chamberlain/Stacey Kent

[ti:Cockeyed Optimist] [ar:Stacey Kent] [al:Jazz Divas] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cockeyed Optimist - Jim Tomlinson/Matt Skelton/Dave Newton/Dave Chamberlain/Stacey Kent [00:07.35]When the skies are brighter canary yellow [00:10.62]I forget every cloud i've ever seen [00:14.37]So the called me a cockeyed optimist [00:18.00]Immature and incurably green [00:21.65]I have heard people rant and rave and bellow [00:25.17]That we're done and we might as well be dead [00:28.66]But i'm only a cockeyed optimist [00:32.22]And i can't get it into my head [00:35.63]I hear the human race [00:37.88]Is falling on its face [00:39.54]And hasn't very far to go [00:43.48]But every whippoorwill [00:45.65]Is selling me a bill [00:47.52]And telling me it just ain't so [00:50.83]I could say life is just a bowl of jello [00:54.14]And appear more intelligent and smart [00:57.92]But i'm stuck like a dopest [00:59.71]With a thing called hope [01:01.71]And i can't get it out of my heart [01:06.08]Not this heart [03:21.66]When the skies are brighter canary yellow [03:25.24]I forget every cloud i've ever seen [03:28.82]So the called me a cockeyed optimist [03:32.46]Immature and incurably green [03:36.04]I have heard people rant and rave and bellow [03:39.62]That we're done and we might as well be dead [03:43.39]But i'm only a cockeyed optimist [03:46.78]And i can't get it into my head [03:50.34]I hear the human race [03:52.41]Is falling on its face [03:54.26]And hasn't very far to go [03:57.41]But every whippoorwill [03:59.35]Is selling me a bill [04:01.50]And telling me it just ain't so [04:04.55]I could say life is just a bowl of jello [04:08.30]And appear more intelligent and smart [04:11.94]But i'm stuck like a dopest [04:13.68]With a thing called hope [04:15.45]And i can't get it out of my heart [04:20.03]Not this heart