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A Cockeyed Optimist

from I Wish It So by Susan Derry feat. Howard Breitbart

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from the musical South Pacific
music by Richard Rodgers
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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When the sky is a bright canary yellow
I forget every cloud I've ever seen,
So they called 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 ev'ry whippoorwill
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…

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from I Wish It So, released November 6, 2021
Susan Derry, vocalist; Howard Breitbart, pianist/arranger
Warren Freeman, producer
Matt Conner executive producer
Blaine Misner, engineer
VibeckeDPhoto, photography
Recorded at Cue Studios, Falls Church VA
May 2021

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Susan Derry Alexandria, Virginia

Susan Derry brightens any venue she steps into. With a mix of vulnerability and strength, charm and good humor, Susan brings authenticity to her work as an actor and cabaret artist. An ingenue who is at once grown-up and ageless, she dazzles as leading lady, singer and storyteller, and newly-minted recording artist. ... more

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