When all the world is a hopeless jumble   And the raindrops tumble all around   Heaven opens a magic lane   When all the cloud darken up the skyway      There's a rainbow highway to be found   Leading from your windowpane   To a place behind the sun   Just a step beyond the rain      Somewhere over rainbow way up high   There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby   And somewhere over rainbow blue birds fly   Oh, if birds can fly over rainbow   Why, then why can't I?      Some day I'll wish upon a star   And wake up where the clouds are far behind me   And troubles melt like lemon drops   Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me      Somewhere over rainbow bluebirds fly   If birds can fly over the rainbow   Why, then why can't I?      Someday I'll wake and rub my eyes   And in that land beyond the skies you'll find me   I'll be a laughing daffodil   And leave the silly cares that fill my mind behind me      Somewhere over rainbow bluebirds fly   If birds can fly over the rainbow   Why, then why can't I?   If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow   Why, oh, why can't I?