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High Hopes
Words & Music by Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van HeusenRecorded by Frank Sinatra, 1961
From the 1959 movie "Hole In The Head" (Academy Award Winner, Best Song)
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Next time you're 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 plant.
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When troubles call, and your back's to the wall,
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There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall.
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Once there was a silly old ram
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Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam;
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No one could make that ram scram -- he kept buttin' that dam,
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'Cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes,
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He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes.
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So an - y time your feelin' bad,'stead of feelin' sad,
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Just remember that ram --
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Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam.
(Instrumental Interlude - First Five Lines of Verse)
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All prob - lems just a toy balloon;
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They'll be bursted soon -- they're just bound to go pop.
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Oops there goes another problem ker -
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Oops there goes another problem ker -
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Oops there goes another problem ker - plop, ker - plop?
Lyric pal Ron Hontz added this bit of information: Sinatra recorded this as a duet with child star Eddie Hodges, from Frank's 1959 film Hole in the Head, co-starring Edward G. Robinson and Eleanor Parker. Single credited to “Frank Sinatra & a Bunch of Kids."