I looked up in the air and what did I see
An airplane flying up above me
I thought “How nice would it be
To fly through the clouds and the blue sky
To look down at the houses and the passersby
Tree tops, roof tops, me-oh-my,
Daddy don’t you know
I want to fly…”

On an airplane, just like you
On an airplane, I want to go

Well, my pop, my daddy
He said to me
He said “Son you don’t know what you say
When you’re high up in an airplane
You’ve got 35,000 feet between you and the ground.”

I said “Daddy don’t talk to me
In ways I don’t understand what you mean
An inch or a mile means nothing to me.”
I want to fly as high as I can be
On an airplane, I want to go

Well my mom chimed in, she said, “listen up,
My sweet little child, my buttercup
What’s the big deal about a metal machine that you fly in the air
Faster than a big bird without flapping his wings?”

I said “Mom, the more you talk the more I want to fly!”

On an airplane, just like you
On an airplane, I want to go
I want to fly as high as I can be, on an airplane
I want to go.