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From RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM Fri May 16 08:29:59 1997
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:54:25 GMT
From: RICKL1@IX.NETCOM.COM
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: Dreamland        Roger McGuinn         Chords/Words

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Roger McGuinn        Dreamland        written by Joni Mitchell

C# B C# B C# B C# B C#

       F#                E             Abm                F#
It's a long long way  to Canada it's a long way from snow chains
                                   Abm    F#       C# B C# B C# B C#
Donkey vendors slicing coconut  no parkas to their name
      F#                E                Abm                   F#
Black babies covered in baking flour the cook's got a carnival song
                              Abm   F#         C# B C#
Lay down someplace shady with dreamland coming on
C#        E                   Abm F#      C# B  C# B  C# B  C#
 Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
       F#             E               Abm                F#
Walter Raleigh  Chris Columbus come a marchin out of the waves
                                                Abm         F#
And they claim the beach and concessions in the name of the sun tan
C# B C# B C# B C#
slaves
   F#                 E                Abm         F#
I wrapped their flag around me like an Errol Flynn sarong
                                       Abm  F#         C# B C#
And I laid down thinking national with dreamland coming on
C#        E                   Abm F#      C# B  C# B  C# B  C#
 Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
         F#           E                  Abm                       F#
Goodtime Mary and the lady soldiers  all dressed up to follow the
drums

Mary in a feather hulahoop misfortune
       Abm     F#           C# B  C# B C#  B  C#
With a rose on her big game gun
      F#               E                   Abm                F#
All saints and sinners shinning heed those trumpets all night long
                                  Abm  F#          C# B C#
Propped up on the samba beat with dreamland coming on
C#        E                   Abm F#      C# B  C# B  C# B  C#
 Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
    F#           E                          Abm             F#
Tar baby and the great white wonder talking over a glass of rum
                             Abm           F#        C# B C# B C#
Burnin on the inside with a  knowledge of things  to come
         F#              E                Abm             F#
There's  gambling on the terrace midnight rambling on the lawn
                                     Abm   F#          C# B C#
As they lean towards temptation with dreamland coming on
C#        E                   Abm F#      C# B  C# B  C# B  C#
 Dream on dreamland dreamland dreamland dream
     F#                   E           Abm                 F#
In a plane flying back to winter with shoe full of tropic sand

There comes a lady draped in a foreign flag
       Abm         F#        C# B C# B C# B C#
On the arms of her Marlboro man
    F#                      E             Abm                F#
The hawks howls in New York City six foot drifts on Myrtle's lawn
                                            Abm  F#          C# B C#
As they push the recliner buttons down with dreamland coming on
C#         E                  Abm F#      C# B  C# B  C# B  C#
Dreamland dreamland dreamland dream

SOLO

          Copyright @ 1975 Crazy Crow Music(BMI)
          From the "Cardiff Rose''  LP  Columbia Records 1976