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1890 Lyrics by Jim Capaldi

Electric Nights

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There's a crowd moving down the street
In the glare of a midsummer's beat
The men beating on their drums
Dancing the Samba

There's a girl of seventeen
Playing rhythms on her tambourine
The heat is so strong
It's already well past December

And in the strange and misty haze
I saw those old colonial days
Of Rio in the old Carnival of 1890

There's a man sleeping in the street
He's unable to stand up on his feet
He's drunk too much rum
And made too much love in the moonlight

The Mulatta's got a look in her eye
You can tell the way she's moving her thighs
She's lost in a trance and you know she'll dance
Till sunlight

And in the strange and misty haze
I saw those old colonial days
Of Rio in the old Carnival of 1890

They were dancing in the street
Dancing in the street
Dancing in the street

About “1890” by Jim Capaldi

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"1890" appears on "Electric Nights".

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