<P> `` If I Ruled the World '' is a popular song , composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel , which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick ( based on Charles Dickens 's The Pickwick Papers ) . In the context of the stage musical , the song is sung by Samuel Pickwick , when he is mistaken for an election candidate and called on by the crowd to give his manifesto . Ornadel and Bricusse received the 1963 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically . </P>
<P> `` If I Ruled the World '' is a popular song , composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel , which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick ( based on Charles Dickens 's The Pickwick Papers ) . In the context of the stage musical , the song is sung by Samuel Pickwick , when he is mistaken for an election candidate and called on by the crowd to give his manifesto . Ornadel and Bricusse received the 1963 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically . </P>
who wrote the song if i ruled the world
who wrote the song if i ruled the world
Leslie Bricusse Cyril Ornadel
Leslie Bricusse Cyril Ornadel