High Hopes
Words & Music by Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1961
From the 1959 movie "Hole In The Head"
(Academy Award Winner, Best Song)
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1. Next time your found, with your chin on the ground,
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There a lot to be learned, so look a - round.
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Just what makes that little old ant
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Think he'll move that rubber tree plant?
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Anyone knows an ant can't move a rubber tree plant,
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But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes,
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He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.
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So an - y time your gettin' low, 'stead of lettin' go,
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Just remember that ant --
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Oops there goes another rubber tree.
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Oops there goes another rubber tree.
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Oops there goes another rubber tree plant.
2. When troubles call, and your back's to the wall,
There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall.
Once there was a silly old ram
Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam;
No one could make that ram scram -- he kept buttin' that dam,
'Cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes,
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes.
So an - y time your feelin' bad,'stead of feelin' sad,
Just remember that ram --
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam.
(Personal arrangement follows)
Yes we’ve got high hopes, we’ve got high hopes,
We’ve got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.
All prob - lems just a toy balloon;
They'll be bursted soon -- they're just bound to go pop.
Oops there goes another problem ker -
Oops there goes another problem ker -
Oops there goes another problem ker - plop, ker - plop?