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Sandman

from Somnambulista by BRAZZAVILLE

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This is a song about the great Mark Sandman from Morphine. He and I had a short friendship before he died. We had both spent time in Brazil and this song imagines that we were going to meet on the beach in Rio to see Jorge Ben play on New Year's Eve.

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Hills facing east
The slums have a view
Of the sea
Towards Africa gaze
Tenderly
The rains last for weeks

1st of the year
We’ll meet in Flamengo
For tea
We’ll smoke cigarettes
By the sea
Sandman & me

Menina dengosa
Nao chore amor
A vida e saudade
Beleza e dor
La da Palestrina
Morre o cantor

Word on the street
Jorge Ben’s gonna sing
New Year’s Eve
In Rio the rains
Last for weeks
The rains last for weeks

credits

from Somnambulista, released March 11, 2000
David Brown – vox, organ, saxophone
Mike Boito – Fender Rhodes
Smokey Hormel – guitar
Mike Bolger – trumpet
David Ralicke – trombone
Michael Rozon – drums, shaker
Andrea Ferraz – vox

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BRAZZAVILLE Barcelona, Spain

Born in the Summer of Love to a Jewish mother and a Canadian father, David's attraction to exotic climes was nurtured at an impressionable age by his father, a trucker, with whom David rode shotgun while he hauled shipping containers from the ports of San Pedro to the Southern Pacific train yards.

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