Lyrics by: E. Yip Harburg
Music by: Harold Arlen
Arranged by: Axel Stordahl – Axel Stordahl
From the Album: The V-Disc, 1943-1947 (disc 2)
From the Film: The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
Label: Columbia – Columbia
Recorded: May 1, 1945 – January 2, 1946
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When all the world is a hopeless
jumble
And the raindrops tumble all
around
Heaven opens a magic lane
When all the clouds 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 the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I dreamed of
Once in a lullabye
Somewhere, over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to
dream
Really do come true
Some day I'll wish upon a star
and wake up where the clouds are
far
behind me
Where laughter falls like lemon
drops away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere, over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to
dream
Really do come true
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh, why can't I?