Caetano Veloso - Dreamland lyrics

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 aa 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, 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