The song opens with the narrator's declaration that he will do anything to make his dream come true. He says that his dream is so beautiful that he is going to do whatever he can to make it happen. He tells us that he has always wanted the prince to propose to his sister, and now that the prince has arrived in New Orleans, he is ready to go meet him. He asks the prince where his sister is, and the prince tells him that she is at a restaurant. The narrator says that he thought the prince was proposing to a rich girl, but now he is looking for her to marry him. The prince asks the narrator to leave the restaurant, but the narrator refuses, saying that the restaurant is just like his dream. He reminds the prince that his father was a hard-working man who never gave up on his dreams.