Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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LYRICS:
I wish I was a willow tree bending on a lazy breeze
Moving like a midnight train through rainy Georgia
I wish I was a grain of sand playing in a baby's hand
Falling like a diamond chain into the ocean

Oh a willow tree is strong enough to bend
Never like the oak that lives in fear of the wind
A grain of sand is all I ever wanted to be
Lay me down and let the water wash over me
Wash over me

I wish I was an old guitar sitting in a beat-up car
Hitting every two-bit bar from here to Texas

Then I wouldn't be ashamed to look up my old friends
And they would be so glad to see me strung up again
A grain of sand is all I ever wanted to be
Lay me down and let the water wash over me
Wash over me

Nobody wants you when you're down and out
Nobody wants to know your name
You're just a face lost in the crowded street
You're in the crowded street

I wish I was a willow tree bending on a lazy breeze
Moving like a midnight train through rainy Georgia
I wish I was a grain of sand playing in a baby's hand
Falling like a diamond chain into the ocean

Oh a willow tree is strong enough to bend
Never like the oak that lives in fear of the wind
A grain of sand is all I ever wanted to be
Lay me down and let the water wash over me
Wash over me wash over me wash over me
Wash over me

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Wish I Was (also known as Willow Tree) - Written by Mickey Newbury. Performed by Robert Haigh.