[ Dreamland von Roger McGuinn ]


 



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It's a long long way  to Canada it's a long way from snow chains

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Donkey vendors slicing coconut  no parkas to their name

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Black babies covered in baking flour the cook's got a carnival song

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Lay down someplace shady with dreamland coming on

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 Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream

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Walter Raleigh  Chris Columbus come a marchin' out of the waves

                                         

And they claim the beach and concessions 

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In the name of the sun tan slaves



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I wrapped their flag around me like an Errol Flynn sarong

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And I laid down thinking national with dreamland coming on

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 Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream

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Good time Mary and the lady soldiers  all dressed up to follow the drums

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Mary in a feather hulahoop misfortune

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With a rose on her big game gun

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All saints and sinners shinning heed those trumpets all night long

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Propped up on the samba beat with dreamland coming on

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 Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream

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Tar baby and the great white wonder talking over a glass of rum

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Burnin' on the inside with a  knowledge of things  to come

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There's  gambling on the terrace midnight rambling on the lawn

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As they lean towards temptation with dreamland coming on

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 Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream

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In a plane flying back to winter with shoe full of tropic sand



There comes a lady draped in a foreign flag

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On the arms of her Marlboro man

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The hawks howls in New York City six foot drifts on Myrtle's lawn

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As they push the recliner buttons down with dreamland coming on

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Dreamland dreamland dreamland dream





**Solo