A Cockeyed Optimist (from 'South Pacific') Songtext
von Richard Rodgers

When the skies are brighter 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 whippoorwill
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...