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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

please post corrections


Roger McGuinn        Dreamland        written by Joni Mitchell

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

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

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

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