Lena Horne - A Cock-Eyed Optimist Lyrics

Lyrics A Cock-Eyed Optimist - Lena Horne



When the sky is a bright canary yellow
I forget every cloud I've ever seen
So they call 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 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 every whip-poor-will
Is selling me a bill
And tell 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 suck like a dope
With a thing called hope
And I can't get it into my heart
Not this heart



Writer(s): hammerstein


Lena Horne - Lena Horne Sings the Great American Songbook
Album Lena Horne Sings the Great American Songbook
date of release
22-10-2012

1 I Got Rhythm
2 Stormy Weather
3 What's This Thing Called Love
4 Love Me or Leave Me
5 Old Devil Moon
6 Push the Button
7 Summertime
8 Cocoanut Sweet
9 Out of This World
10 Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
11 Darn That Dream
12 At Long Last Love
13 The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
14 But Beautiful
15 I Wonder What Became of Me
16 What I'll Do
17 It Ain't Necessarily So
18 How's Your Romance? / After You / Love of My Life / It's All Right With Me (Live)
19 The Man I Love - Live
20 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
21 I Wants You to Stay Here
22 I’ll Wind
23 Fun to Be Fooled
24 Night and Day
25 People Will Say We're in Love
26 Sleigh Ride In July
27 One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
28 Get Out of Town
29 Mad About the Boy
30 Lover Man
31 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
32 I Have Dreamed
33 From This Moment On
34 I Wish I Was Back In My Baby's Arms
35 Baubles, Bangles and Beads
36 Someone to Watch Over Me
37 How Long Has This Been Going On?
38 A Cock-Eyed Optimist
39 Harburg Medley: Thrill Me / What Is there to Say / The Begat (Live)
40 As Long As I Live
41 Why I Was Born
42 Just of Those Things
43 Where or When
44 The Lady Is A Tramp
45 Bewitched
46 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
47 Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
48 Polka Dots and Moonbeams




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