A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes

"A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" is a song written and composed by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston for the Walt Disney 1950 film Cinderella. In the song Cinderella (as sung by Ilene Woods) encourages her animal friends to never stop dreaming, and that theme continues throughout the entire story. The song was also nominated for AFI's 100 years...100 songs, as one of 15 songs from Disney and one of 17 songs from an animated movie to be nominated. The songs that eventually made the cut was: When You Wish Upon A Star (#7), Some Day My Prince Will Come (#19), Beauty and the Beast (#62) and Hakuna Matata (#99).

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

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