DREAMLAND
Joni Mitchell - 1976


It's a long long
way from Canada
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
We're going to lay
down some place shady
With dreamland
coming on
Dreamland dreamland

Dreamland dreamland

Walter Raleigh and
Chris Columbus
Come marching out
of the waves
And claim the beach
and all concessions
In the name of the
suntan slave
I wrapped that flag
around me
Like a Dorothy
Lamour sarong
And I lay down
thinking national
With dreamland
coming on
Dreamland dreamland

Dreamland dreamland

Goodtime Mary and a
fortune hunter
All dressed up to
follow the drums
Mary in a feather
hula-hoop
Miss Fortune with a
rose on her big game gun
All saints all
sinners shining
Heed those trumpets
all night long
Propped up on a
samba beat
With dreamland
coming on
Dreamland dreamland

Dreamland dreamland

Tar baby and the
Great White Wonder
Talking over a
glass of rum
Burning on the
inside
With the knowledge
of things to come
There's gambling
out on the terrace
And midnight
ramblin' on the lawn
As they lead toward
temptation
With dreamland
coming on
Dreamland dreamland

Dreamland dreamland

In a plane flying
back to winter
In shoes full of
tropic sand
A lady in a foreign
flag
On the arm of her
Marlboro Man
The hawk howls in
New York City
Six foot drifts on
Myrtle's lawn
As they push the
recline buttons down
With dreamland
coming on
Dreamland dreamland

Dreamland dreamland

African sand on the
trade winds
And the sun on the
Amazon
As they push the
recline buttons down
With dreamland
coming on
Dreamland dreamland

Dreamland dreamland