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Thread #95923   Message #1870467
Posted By: Peace
27-Oct-06 - 10:29 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Teach Me To Drive / Sayonara Nakamura
Subject: Lyr Add: SAYONARA NAKAMURA (Ted Egan)
OK. Maybe some good news.

Music\DanceMUSIC. Many songs have been produced related to the pearling industry, of which each relay the intriguing sagas of daily life. SAYONARA NAKAMURA by Ted Egan ...
library.thinkquest.org/10236/mus.htm


There is a RealPlayer rendition of the song there, but I can never get RealPlayer to play on the computer I use. Perhaps someone could give it a try and put the chords in for Muttley.

When the luggers all sailed away
From Roebuck Bay on that fateful day
The diver on the B 19 was Nakamura
Not yet twenty-one
From the Land of the Rising Sun
His homeland was the island Okinawa.

In the deepest holes of the Lacepede Shoals
To fulfill the pearling master's goals
Went the diver from the B 19, Nakamura
His quest for the lustrous pearl
As strong as his love for the beautiful girl
He'd wed when he returned to Okinawa.

Chorus:
But it's goodbye now, farewell
Say goodbye to Okinawa
For today we'll bury you
In West Australia
You will never be as one
With the Land of the Rising Sun
Sayonara. Sayonara Nakamura.

If not, and you can make an mp3 of the song, I will give it a listen on Monday and put the chords in.