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?