[00:00.00]A Cock-Eyed Optimist - Lena Horne
[00:06.67]When the sky is a bright canary yellow
[00:14.27]I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen
[00:21.57]So they called me a cockeyed optimist
[00:29.04]I'm mature and incurably green
[00:36.02]I have heard people rant
[00:39.27]And rave and bellow
[00:43.71]That we're done and
[00:45.88]We might as well be dead
[00:51.07]But I'm only a cockeyed optimist
[00:58.42]And I can't get it into my head
[01:05.86]I hear the human race
[01:09.51]Is fallin' on its face
[01:13.24]And hasn't very far to go
[01:20.36]But ev'ry whippoor will
[01:24.22]Is sellin' me a bill
[01:27.96]And tellin' me it just ain't so
[01:34.91]I could say life is
[01:38.08]Just a bowl of Jello
[01:42.94]And appear more intelligent and smart
[01:50.45]But I'm stuck like a **
[01:54.03]With a thing called hope
[01:57.65]And I can't get it out of my heart
[02:05.16]No Not this heart
[02:12.88]I hear the human race
[02:16.66]Is fallin' on its face
[02:20.25]And hasn't very far to go
[02:27.42]But ev'ry whippoor will
[02:31.31]Is sellin' me a bill
[02:34.93]And tellin' me it just ain't so
[02:42.07]I could say life is
[02:45.50]Just a bowl of Jello
[02:49.87]And appear more intelligent and smart
[02:56.86]But I'm stuck like a **
[03:01.04]With a thing called hope
[03:04.69]And I can't get it out of my heart
[03:12.38]No Not this heart