A Cock Eyed Optimist

A Cock Eyed Optimist - Johnny Mathis

Written by：Oscar Hammerstein II/Richard Rodgers

When the skies is a 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 it's face

And hasn't very far to go

Yes 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

No not this heart

It's so I could say life is just a bowl of oatmeal

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

No not this heart