Misc Musicals – South Pacific - A Cockeyed Optimist (Ukulele)

            F                       Dm
When the skies are brighter canary yellow

      C                         Am
I forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen,

           Ab                  C
So they called me a cockeyed optimist

     Db                  F
Immature and incurably green.

            F                       Dm
I have heard people rant and rave and bellow

   C                         Am
That we're done and we might as well be dead,

     Ab                  C
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist

     Db                  F
And I can't get it into my head.

A
I hear the human race

Em
Is fallin' on its face

C
And hasn't very far to go,

A
But ev'ry whippoorwill

G
Is sellin' me a bill,

C                         G
And tellin' me it just ain't so.

  F                       Dm
I could say life is just a bowl of Jello

   C                         Am
And appear more intelligent and smart,

   A
But I'm stuck like a dope

      Em
With a thing called hope,

                              C
And I can't get it out of my heart!

Dm    C   F
Not this heart...