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DREAMLAND OPENS HERE

(learned in the 1940s, probably from my mother or sister)
-i think this is a Girl Scout song, since my mother was a Girl Scout leader)

Dreamland opens here, sweet the dream path clear.
Listen, child, oh, listen well: from the canebrake the wildcat cries.

Dreamland opens here, sweet the dream path clear.
Listen, child, oh, listen well to the song of the crocodile.

Dreamland opens here, sweet the dream path clear.
Listen, child, oh, listen well to what the tortoise may have to tell.

(from miriam berg's folksong collection)