The Magic Window lyrics

Someday you'll be looking through a magic window

And you'll see yourself sail off with Captain Kidd

What adventures you'll enjoy

And you'll be the only boy

To discover where the treasure chest was hid

And if I remember that's what I once did

I remember looking through a magic window

And I saw myself teach Robin Hood to aim

Then what mischief I got in meeting HuckleberryFinn

And I saw it through that magic window frame

You can bet your bottom dream you'll do the same

With your nose against the glass and your elbows on the sill

You'll be a partner of Buffalo Bill

Or help solve a case with Sherlock Holmes

Or you'll get to go with Gullivereach time he roams

Grown-ups don't know where to find that magic window

But it's any window little boys look through

There's so much for you to see, so don't ever say to me

That you've got a lot of growing up to do

'Cause I wish that I were growing down to you

With your elbows on the sill and your nose against the pane

You'll toss the pumpkin at Ichabod Crane

You're one guy Paul Bunyan couldn't lick

You're the guy that whaled the daylights out of Moby Dick

Grown-ups don't know where to find that magic window

But it's any window little boys look through

There's so much for you to see, so don't ever say to me

That you've got a lot of growing up to do

'Cause I wish that I were growing down to you

Writer(s): Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke