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Roger McGuinn Dreamland written by Joni Mitchell
It's a long long way to Canada it's a long way from snow chains
Donkey vendors slicing coconut no parkas to their name
Black babies covered in baking flour the cook's got a carnival song
Lay down someplace shady with dreamland coming on
Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
Walter Raleigh Chris Columbus come a marchin out of the waves
And they claim the beach and concessions in the name of the sun tan
slaves
I wrapped their flag around me like an Errol Flynn sarong
And I laid down thinking national with dreamland coming on
Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
Goodtime Mary and the lady soldiers all dressed up to follow the
drums
Mary in a feather hulahoop misfortune
With a rose on her big game gun
All saints and sinners shinning heed those trumpets all night long
Propped up on the samba beat with dreamland coming on
Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
Tar baby and the great white wonder talking over a glass of rum
Burnin on the inside with a knowledge of things to come
There's gambling on the terrace midnight rambling on the lawn
As they lean towards temptation with dreamland coming on
Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
In a plane flying back to winter with shoe full of tropic sand
There comes a lady draped in a foreign flag
On the arms of her Marlboro man
The hawks howls in New York City six foot drifts on Myrtle's lawn
As they push the recliner buttons down with dreamland coming on
Dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
SOLO
Copyright @ 1975 Crazy Crow Music(BMI)
From the "Cardiff Rose'' LP Columbia Records 1976