"A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" is a song written and composed by Mack David, Al Hoffman andJerry Livingston for the 1950 film "Cinderella". In it Cinderella (Ilene Woods) encourages her animal friends to never stop dreaming, and that theme continues throughout the entire story. It was also nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, as one of 15 from Disney and one of 17 from an animated movie to be nominated. The ones that eventually made the cut was: "When You Wish Upon A Star" (#7), "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (#19), "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (#36), "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (#47), "Beauty and the Beast" (#62) and "Hakuna Matata" (#99). It is also heavily featured in the opening and ending of Ignite the Dream: A Nighttime Spectacular of Magic and Light in Shanghai Disneyland and Disney Illuminations in Disneyland Paris. It was also featured as exit music of Disneyland's fireworks show Magical: Disney's New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations.
Lyrics
A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
(Speaking)
Oh that clock!
Killjoy.
I hear you, Come on, Get up you say!.
Even he bosses me around.
Well, there's one thing.
They can't order me to stop dreaming.
And perhaps someday...
(Singing)
The dream that I wish
Will come true
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmmm-hmm-hmm-hmm
La-da-la-da-da-da-da-da-dee
Hmm-mm-hm-mm-mm-hmm-hmm-hmm
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dee
La-da-da-da-daaa-da-da-da
Hmm-hmm-hmm-hm-hmm-hmm-hm-hmm
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The Dream that you wish
Will come true.
And if you dream, then someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will lose your heartache
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're feeling small
Alone, in the night you whisper
Thinking no one can hear you at all
You wake with the morning sunlight
To find fortune that is smiling on you
Don't let your heart be filled with sorrow
For all you know tomorrow
The dream that you wish will come true
A dream is a wish your heart makes
A dream is a wish your heart makes
You wake with the morning sunlight
To find fortune that is smiling on you
Don't let your heart be filled with sorrow
For all you know tomorrow
The dream that you wish will come true
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
(Feel your dream!)
A dream is a wish your heart makes (Yeah!)
When you're fast asleep (In your dreams!)
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep (Oh! You know you gotta have faith!)
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come shining through (See it shining!)
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
(Make your wish!)
(Find your dream! Come on!)
(Make your wish!)
(You gotta dream! Come on!)
So if you have a dream
And believe with all your heart
Then make a wish and watch the magic start
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come shining through
No matter how your heart is grieving (How your heart is grieving!)
If you keep on believing (Just keep on believing!)
The dream that you wish (Yes the dream!)
Whatever you wish (Yes the dream!)
Yes the dream that you wish will come true
(Make your wish!)
(Find your dream!)
(Make your wish!)
(Find your dream!)
Other appearances
Cinderella (2015)
In this version, it is sung by Lily James, appearing during the credits of the film.
Twice Charmed
The song appears in the Spin-off musical, aboard Disney Cruise Line's Disney Magic, sung by the Company. It serves as the shows finale, as the Prince and Cinderella get remarried.
Steps in Time
A Latin jazz version sung by Eden Espinosa served as the opening number in the former Hyperion Theater show, Steps in Time. The song, including multiple remixes, has found life in countless Disney events thereafter. It was featured at the grand opening of the Magical Moments Festival, as well as Disneyland's Grad Nite 2006-2009 and California Adventure's New Years Celebration 2006-2009. Alternative tracks without Eden's vocals also showed up at the 2015 Walt Disney Legacy Awards and the finale of Mickey's Showtime.
A pop arrangement was used for Grad Nite 2010, as well as Disneyland's 56th through 59th birthday celebrations. A rock arrangement has been used at Disneyland's Grad Nite from 2011 and California Adventure's Grad Nite 2013 up to the present, though it is usually played in part. Lastly, the Disneyland All-American College Band has performed an instrumental version every summer from 2007 to 2016.
Mickey Mouse (TV series)
Mickey and Minnie sang this song while Mickey was dreaming in the episode, The Perfect Dream.
Other Versions
Performer(s) | Title(s) | Translations(s) | Language |
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Odeta Katundi | Albanian | ||
رولا زكي (Rula Zaki) (1998 version) سارة الجوهري (Sarah Al-Gohary) (2014 version) |
"الحلم أماني تشوفها" | "The dream is wishes you can see" | Arabic |
Bengali | |||
Simone de Morais | "O Sonho é um Desejo D'Alma" | Brazilian Portuguese | |
Нели Андреева (Neli Andreeva) | Bulgarian | ||
? | Cantonese | ||
Cani González | "Soñar" | Castilian Spanish | |
Mima Čulina | "San je želja" | "The dream is a wish" | Croatian |
Marie Sikulová (1970 version) Štěpánka Heřmánková (2005 version) |
Czech | ||
Lise Ringheim | "Jeg drømmer kun ønskedrømme" | Danish | |
? (1950 version) Joke de Kruijf (1990 version) |
"Een droom laat je hart iets wensen" (1990 version) | Dutch | |
Ritva Lehtelä (1967 version) Anna Kuoppamäki (1993 version) |
Finnish | ||
Paulette Rollin (1950 version) Dominique Poulain (1991 version) |
"Tendre Rêve" (1950 version) "Le Rêve de ma vie" (1991 version) |
"Tender Dream" | French |
Eva-Ingeborg Scholz | "Ich hab ihn im Traum gesehen" | "I Saw Him in the Dream" | German |
Άννα Ρόσση (Anna Rossi) | Greek | ||
טל אמיר (Tal Amir) | Hebrew | ||
Hindi | |||
Éva Pap | "Álmod egyszer valóra váll" | Hungarian | |
Vigdís Hrefna Pálsdóttir | Icelandic | ||
Tisa Julianti | "Mimpi Adalah Harapan" | "A Dream is a Wish" | Indonesian |
Giuliana Maroni (1950 version) Maria Cristina Brancucci (1967 version) |
Italian | ||
富沢志満 (Shima Tomizawa) (1961 version) 鈴木より子 (Yoriko Suzuki) (1992 version) つたいめぐみ (Megumi Tsutai) (2007 version) |
"夢はひそかに" (Yume wa Hisoka ni) | "Dream comes true covertly" | Japanese |
Айнұр Бермұхамбетова (Aynur Bermuxambetova) | Kazakh | ||
이미라 (Lee Mi-Ra) | Korean | ||
Evangelina Elizondo (1950 version) Natalia Sosa (1997 version) |
"Soñar es desear" | Latin American Spanish | |
"Mimpi Impian Hatimu" | "Dream is Your Heart's Wishes" | Malay | |
王華怡 (Wang Huayi) | Mandarin | ||
Edle Stray-Pedersen | Norwegian | ||
Maria Ciesielska (1961 version) Weronika Bochat (2012 version) |
"Ja znam takie sny, cudowne" (1961 version) "Ze snem budzą się marzenia" (2012 version) |
Polish | |
Sandra de Castro | Portuguese | ||
Mediana Vlad | Romanian | ||
Елена Галицкая (Elena Galitskaya) | Russian | ||
Irina Milovanović | Serbian | ||
B. Čupková (1970 version) Monika Hilmerová (2012 version) |
Slovak | ||
Tatjana Angelini (1950 version) Alice Babs (1967 version) |
"Din dröm ger dig allt" | Swedish | |
? (1st Dub) ? (2nd Dub) |
Thai | ||
Tülay Uyar | Turkish | ||
Вікторія Івасишина (Viktoriya Ivasyshyna) | Ukrainian |