I've got those optimism blues
And it's about to knock me
out of my shoes
Haven't seen such a grin since
Lord knows when
I've got those optimism blues
I've got those optimism blues
And it's bound to knock me
out of my shoes
Haven't seen such a grin since,
Lord knows when
When I've got those
optimism blues
Time has changed so many things
Running out of this and too much of that
And time has claimed so many things
By getting rid of some and fixing others
But I'm prepared to accept
Whatever fate will turn up
Because I believe that there's
A very good reason
for everything I happen in
I've got those optimism blues
And it's bound to knock me
out of my shoes
Haven't seen such a grin since
Lord knows when
I've got those optimism blues
Time has changed so many things
The West dippin' in haze,
the East fussin'
And time has changed so many things
They took all the signs
off the southern bus
But flowers still grow like before
Few souls lost
and you can't hold a good man down
By the river, people getting
saved by the desert
I've got those optimism blues
Blues, and it's about to knock
me out of my shoes
Haven't seen such a grin
since long ago
It's what I'm going in,
I've got those optimism blues
I've got those optimism blues,
blues
And it's about to knock me
out of my shoes
Haven't seen such a grin since,
Lord knows when
I've got those optimism moves
I've got those optimism moves
An d it's bout to knock me
out of my shoes
Haven't seen such a grin since,
Lord knows when I'm going in ,
I've got those optimism blues