A Cockeyed Optimist (2023 Digimix Remaster)

Gosh, it's beautiful here. Just look at that yellow sun

You know, I don't think we're at the end of the world

Like everyone else thinks. I just can't work myself

Up to getting that low. Do you think I'm crazy, too?

Ha ha ha

They all do over at Fleet Hospital. You know what they call me?

"Knucklehead Nellie." I suppose I am, but I can't help it. (sung)

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'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 telling 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 stuck like a dope with a thing called hope

And I can't get it out of my heart

Not this heart

Wanna know anything else about me?

You say you are a fugitive. What were you running away from?

Gosh, I don't know. It was more like I was running to something

I wanted to see what the world was like, outside Little Rock

I mean. And I wanted to meet different kinds of people and

Find out if I liked 'em any better. And I'm finding out