If Dreams Were True

If dreams were true I’d have a house

     Upon the broadest street;

I’d have a lawn with fountains there,

     And miles of orchards sweet.

If dreams were true I’d have a wife,

     The fairest in the land,

With children four to romp me o’er

     And hold my ready hand,

If dreams were true.

If dreams were true I’d sail a yacht,

     The finest wealth could buy,

O’er foreign seas to foreign shores

     And dwell in luxury.

If dreams were true – I’ve dreamed all this –

     But then, why dreams recall?

If dreams were true my pledge to you,

     I’d never dream at all,

If dreams were true.

Oct. 5, ‘99