If Only I Had a Wishing Well lyrics

If wishes were horses, beggars could ride,

That's what they say in the old bromide,

And who am I to deny a platitude?

It's all so bandied about, you know

That sometimes wishing will make it so

And that's the why and where for all the latitude

in my attitude (What's your attitude?)

If I had a wishing well

(The world would be so swell)

I'd right all the wrongs, cure all the ills,

Lift all the mortgages, pay all the bills

Pull off the weeds and plant daffodils

If I had a wishing well (wishing well)

If I had a wishing well

The farmer in the dell

Would soon throw away his plough and his hoe

He'd sit in the shade and watch his crop grow

There'd soon be silk where it's now cuticle

(If we had a wishing well

We'd make every tree a Christmas tree

Covered with gifts

And then... then we would tell all the world

That there should be peace on earth

Good will to men)

If I had a wishing well

What sadness I'd dispell

I'd find a reward for all who must toil

Stop all those wars on that faraway soil

(To play the game according to all)

If I had a wishing well

(Here's wishing you well!)

• Artist:Rudy Vallée