Skeeter Davis – Optimistic (Guitar)

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#10 on BB Hot Country on RCA Records in 1961 [INTRO] Eb Cm Eb Bb Cm [VERSE 1]

Eb              Ab         Eb          Bb
How long is the river, how deep is the sea?

Bb             Ab
How long is forever, that's how long you'll 

     Bb
love me.

[VERSE 2]

Bb                        Ab
My heart is beating fast, I found true love

at last.

Bb
I'm so optimistic, I know this new love will 

Eb
last.

[INTERLUDE] Bb Eb [VERSE 3]

                Ab                       Bb
How high is the mountain, how far out is space?

                 Ab                       Bb
How long could I hold you, in a lover's embrace?

[VERSE 4]

Bb                       Ab
Until the end of time, a love that's so divine.

Bb                           Eb
I'm so optimistic about this new love of mine.

[OUTRO] Cm Eb A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.