[00:00.00]A Cockeyed Optimist (Vocal) - José Carreras/Richard Rodgers/Kiri Te Kanawa/Jonathan Tunick/London Symphony Orchestra
[00:10.68]When the skies
[00:14.18]Are brighter canary yellow
[00:17.53]I forget ev'ry cloud
[00:19.54]I've ever seen
[00:21.93]So they called me
[00:23.63]A cockeyed optimist
[00:26.57]Immature and incurably green
[00:31.28]I have heard people rant
[00:33.52]And rave and bellow
[00:35.84]That we're done
[00:37.00]And we might as well be dead
[00:40.66]But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
[00:44.99]And I can't get it into my head
[00:49.97]I hear the human race
[00:52.37]Is fallin' on its face
[00:54.67]And hasn't very far to go
[00:59.75]But ev'ry whippoorwill
[01:02.22]Is sellin' me a bill
[01:04.50]And tellin' me it just ain't so
[01:09.04]I could say life is
[01:10.66]Just a bowl of Jello
[01:13.61]And appear more intelligent
[01:16.32]And smart
[01:17.96]But I'm stuck like a **
[01:20.52]With a thing called hope
[01:22.76]And I can't get it
[01:24.74]Out of my heart
[01:29.08]Not this heart