Nancy Sinatra - Shifting Gears

Cockeyed Optimist (Orchestra Version)

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
Now I hear the human race is falling on its face
And hasn't very far to go
But every whippoorwill is selling me a bill
And telling me, well 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

Not this heart



Credits
Writer(s): Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Richard Rodgers
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Other Album Tracks

  1. As Time Goes By
  2. When I Look in Your Eyes
  3. Holly Holy
  4. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise
  5. Cockeyed Optimist (Guitar Version)
  6. I Can See Clearly Now
  7. Killing Me Softly with His Song
  8. Play Me
  9. Something
  10. MacArthur Park

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  1. Sugar (2024 Remastered)
  2. Nancy In London (Definitive Reissue)
  3. Keep Walkin': Singles, Demos & Rarities 1965-1978
  4. Do I Hear A Waltz
  5. Something Pretty
  6. Boots
  7. For Some
  8. Start Walkin' 1965-1976
  9. Nancy Sinatra and Friends
  10. Song of Love for Danny

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