A Cock-Eyed Optimist-Lena Horne

[ti:A Cock-Eyed Optimist (From 'South Pacific') [Remastered 2002]] [ar:Lena Horne] [al:Stormy Weather 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Cock-Eyed Optimist - Lena Horne [00:09.27]When the sky is a bright canary yellow [00:15.97] [00:16.72]I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen [00:22.46] [00:23.96]So they called me a cockeyed optimist [00:29.63] [00:31.38]I'm mature and incurably green [00:38.31]I have heard people rant [00:41.75]And rave and bellow [00:45.11] [00:45.99]That we're done and [00:47.98]We might as well be dead [00:51.04] [00:53.29]But I'm only a cockeyed optimist [00:59.00] [01:00.50]And I can't get it into my head [01:07.12] [01:07.80]I hear the human race [01:11.56]Is fallin' on its face [01:15.18]And hasn't very far to go [01:21.33] [01:22.14]But ev'ry whippoor will [01:26.11]Is sellin' me a bill [01:29.71]And tellin' me it just ain't so [01:36.62]I could say life is [01:39.81]Just a bowl of Jello [01:44.50]And appear more intelligent and smart [01:52.04]But I'm stuck like a dope [01:55.74]With a thing called hope [01:59.30]And I can't get it out of my heart [02:06.56]No Not this heart [02:13.17] [02:14.24]I hear the human race [02:16.91] [02:17.83]Is fallin' on its face [02:20.83] [02:21.52]And hasn't very far to go [02:27.79] [02:28.85]But ev'ry whippoor will [02:32.29]Is sellin' me a bill [02:35.98]And tellin' me it just ain't so [02:43.15]I could say life is [02:46.51]Just a bowl of Jello [02:50.76]And appear more intelligent and smart [02:57.85]But I'm stuck like a dope [03:01.96]With a thing called hope [03:05.53]And I can't get it out of my heart [03:12.80]No Not this heart