Year: 2007 - Album: Streisand: Live In Concert (2 CD's)
Written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodger
Introd.: Fm6/G G7/13 C5 When the sky Cm9add B5+ Is a bright canary yellow I forget Bbm9 Every cloud I've ever seen Ab Gm So they call me a cockeyed optimist Fm Immature and incurably green I have heard C5 People rant Cm9add B5+ And rave and bellow that we're done and we might Bbm9 As well be dead but I'm only Ab Gm A cockeyed optimist And I can't get it into my head Fm I hear the human race is fallin' on it face C5 And hasn't Cm9add B5+ Very far to go but ev'ry whippoorwill is sellin' me a bill Bbm9 And tellin' me it just ain't so Ab Gm I could say life is just a bowl of Jello Fm And appear more intelligent and smart C5 But I'm stuck Cm9add B5+ Like a dope with a thing called hope and I can't Bbm9 No, I won't get it out of my heart Ab Not this heart