"You Can Fly"

**"You Can Fly"** is a song from the 1953 film Peter Pan.

## Background

It is completely sung by the Jud Conlon Chorus and the Mellomen. It was sung during Peter, Wendy, John, Michael, and Tinker Bell's flight to Neverland.

The song is the titular song for the tape Disney Sing Along Songs: You Can Fly!, and was also featured on Disney Sing Along Songs: Collection of All Time Favorites: The Magic Years and Disney Sing Along Songs: From Hercules.

The song was also made into a music video on DTV, which aired on the Disney Channel, and set to footage of Disney animation, including not just Peter Pan, but also Pluto's Fledgling, It's Tough to Be a Bird, The Night Before Christmas, Santa's Workshop, The Plastics Inventor, The Flying Jalopy, The Mail Pilot, The Pelican and the Snipe, The Three Caballeros, Dumbo, The Flying Squirrel, and The Wind in the Willows segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

The song was used as the main theme for the Magic Kingdom Club Gold Card: Update '95 video, with a slower instrumental version being used for the segments focusing on Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom.

In the House of Mouse episode "Donald Wants to Fly", Peter sings a version of the song with different lyrics to help Donald Duck learn to fly.

An instrumental version is played in Tinker Bell on the music box that Tinker Bell repairs and returns to Wendy.

## Lyrics

Spoken:

Wendy: But, Peter, how do we get to Never Land?

Peter: Fly, of course!

Wendy: Fly?

Peter: It's easy! All you have to do is to...is to...is to—Ha! That's funny.

Wendy: What's the matter? Don't you know?

Peter: Oh sure, it's, it's just that I never thought about it before.

Say, that's it! You think of a wonderful thought!

John and Wendy: Any happy little thought?

Peter: Uh-huh.

Wendy: Like toys at Christmas?

John: Sleigh bells? Snow?

Peter: Yep! Watch me now—here I go!

It's easier than pie!

Wendy: He can fly!

John: He can fly!

Michael: He flew!

Peter: Now, you try

Wendy: I'll think of a mermaid lagoon

Oh—underneath a magic moon

John: I'll think I'm in a pirate's cave

Michael: I'll think I'll be an Injun brave

Peter: Now, everybody try

All: One, two, three!

Children: We can fly! We can fly! We can fly!

Peter: This won't do

What's the matter with you?

All it takes is faith and trust

Oh! And something I forgot—dust!

Wendy & John: Dust?

Michael: Dust?

Peter: Yep! Just a little bit of pixie dust.

Now, think of the happiest things.

It's the same as having wings

Wendy: Let's all try it, just once more

John: Look! We're rising off the floor

Michael: Jiminy!

Wendy: Oh my!

We can fly!

Peter: You can fly!

Children: We can fly!

Peter: Come on, everybody, here we gooooooo!

Off to Never Land!

Chorus:

Think of a wonderful thought,

Any merry little thought,

Think of Christmas, think of snow, think of sleigh bells,

Off you go, like reindeer in the sky!

You can fly, you can fly, you can fly!!!

Think of the happiest things,

It's the same as having wings,

Take a path that moonbeams make,

If the moon is still awake,

You'll see him wink his eye

You can fly, you can fly, you can fly!!!

Off you go with a Hi and Ho

With the stars beyond the blue

There's a Never Land waiting for you

Where all your happy dreams come true

Every dream that you dream will come true

Michael (spoken): Come on, Nana!

When there's a smile in your heart

There's no better time to start

Think of all the joy you'll find

When you leave the world behind

And bid your fears good-bye

You can fly, you can fly, you can fly, you can fly, you can fly!

Peter (spoken): There it is, Wendy, second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.

When there's a smile in your heart

There's no better time to start

Think of all the joy you'll find

When you leave the world behind

And bid your fears good-bye

You can fly, you can fly, you can fly, you can fly, you can fly!

You can fly, you can fly, you can fly!