A Cock-Eyed Optimist - 1949

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 13 Jul 2001

When the sky is a bright canary yellow
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen,
So they call me
A cock eyed 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 cock eyed optimist
And I can't get it into my head.
I hear the human race
Is falling on its face
And hasn't very far to go,
But ev'ry whiporwill
Is selling me a bill,
And telling 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!

Soft karaoke
Words
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A Cock-Eyed Optimist 1949 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 13 Jul 2001

A Cock-Eyed Optimist 1949 seq Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK 13 Jul 2001
A Cock-Eyed Optimist 1949
Music by Richard Rodgers
Words by Oscar Hammerstein II
From their Musical 'South Pacific'
sung by Mary Martin - and Mitzi Gaynor in the film
Copyright 1949 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Williamson Music Ltd., 14 St George Street, London W1
Sequenced and arranged by
Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Friday 13 Jul 2001 at 23.14
in association with Doug Grierson
and
Bunty Pritchard Jones