A Cock-Eyed Optimist
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- Full sheet, both hands
- Right hand melody sheet
- Leadsheet
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- MIDI file
- Lyrics and chords
Lyrics
When the (C5)sky is a bright canary yellow,
(Cm)I (Bb5)forget ev'ry cloud I've ever seen.
(Bbm9)So they (Ab)call me a cockeyed (Gm)optimist,
(Fm)immature and incurably green.
(Cm)I have heard people rant and rave and bellow that we're (Db)done and we might as well be (Db6)dead.
But I'm (Ab)only a (Bb)cockeyed (Gm7)optimist,
and I (Fm7)can't get it into my (Ebmaj7)head.
I (Gm)hear the human (Gm6)race is (A7sus4)falling on its (D)face and (Gm)hasn't very far to (A7sus4)go.
(D)But (Gm)ev'ry (Gm(maj7))whippoorwill is (Dm7)selling me a (D)bill and (Bb)talling me it (F13)just ain't (Fm7)so.
(Bb7)Now, I could (E)say life is (Eaug)just a bowl of (E6)JellO (Emaj7)and (Bm7)appear more intelligent and smart,
(E7)but I'm (A6)stuck
like a (Adim7)dope
with a (E)thing called (F#)hope,
and I (B)can't,
no, I (Baug)won't get it out of my (Emaj7)heart,
(E7)not this heart.
Song info
A Cock-Eyed Optimist by Barbra Streisand is a level 5 of 5 piano arrangement in the key of C at 80 BPM. Practice takes the song one line at a time and waits for you, with the letter inside every note. When the lines feel easy, play the full song.
- Level
- 5 of 5
- Key
- C
- Tempo
- 80 BPM
- Chords
- A6 Ab Adim7 Asus4 B Baug Bb Bb7
- Artist
- Barbra Streisand
- Genre
- Pop
- Style
- Jazz standard
- Mood
- Happy