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Midway Dream Cafe

from Bird Mancini Lounge by Bird Mancini

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Remastered, background vocals added
Original version released on “Pie In The Sky” CD by The Sky Blues ©1996

Billy: I used to run a blues jam at The Midway Café in Jamaica Plain, MA, and would run into all kinds of people. There was a regular named Sally who couldn’t sing very well, but always enjoyed herself. There was a guy at the bar who was a Vietnam Vet but also a flower child too. Why the song turned out to be bossa nova style, I have no idea—it just did.

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MIDWAY DREAM CAFÉ
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP

I met a man
Said he had been to the gathering of the flock
And he lived off the land
And that his mission in this life was just to rock
He was eighteen
Living a dream
Soon to be awoken
In the jungle of the broken hearted

Another night between dreams and reality
Another story I’ll be told, another life to unfold
At the Midway Dream Café

Sally likes to croon
She likes to sing it with the band just for fun
She may not stay in tune
But she has practiced all week for her moment in the sun
She sings her song
Nothing is wrong
Tomorrow will not come
And yesterday is gone

Another night between dreams and reality
Another story I’ll be told, another life to unfold
At the Midway Dream Café

If I see another sad face looking up at me
I may have to leave this sad place, woudn’t you agree?
I can’t look them in the eye as I am floating trough their dream

Another night between dreams and reality
Another story I’ll be told, another life to unfold
At the Midway Dream Café

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from Bird Mancini Lounge, released March 1, 2013
All vocals and instruments by Ruby Bird and Billy Carl Mancini except Bob McCloskey-saxophone, Mauro Tortolero-conga, cowbell.

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Bird Mancini Boston, Massachusetts

“…a cosmopolitan fusion…pop music in the most adventurous, inclusive sense of the term.” -The Boston Globe

Ruby Bird and Billy Carl Mancini, better known as BIRD MANCINI, Boston's acclaimed accordion/guitar rock duo/band features eclectic and at times a bit psychedelic rock with lush vocal arrangements, blues-tinged guitar, accordion, harmonica, and a variety of percussion, bells and whistles. ... more

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