Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Dreamland, artist - Caetano Veloso. Date of issue: 14.04.2007
Song language: English
Dreamland |
| 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 someplace 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 |
| La, La … |
| African sand on the trade winds |
| And the sun on the Amazon |
| As they push the reline buttons down |
| With dreamland coming on |
| Dreamland, dreamland |
| Dreamland, dreamland |