Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true!
Someday I'll wish upon a star
Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly
( Someday I'll wish upon a star
Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly |
Recorded 1988 by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole in Honolulu and released on his 1993 CD Facing Future from Mountain Apple and featured on National Public Radio in 1996 and re-released on his 1997 CD Alone in Iz World and used in the films Meet Joe Black (1998) and Finding Forrester (2001) and in the ER episode "On the Beach" (May 2002) of Dr. Green's death in Hawaii seen by 50 million people. |