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Thread #139460   Message #3121570
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-Mar-11 - 05:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Nagasaki (Harry Warren and Mort Dixon)
Subject: Lyr Add: NAGASAKI (Warren/Dixon)
Lyrics copied from The International Lyrics Playground and adjusted a bit.


NAGASAKI
Words and music by Harry Warren & Mort Dixon, ©1928

Fellows, if you're on,
I will spin a yarn
That was told to me by able seaman Jones.
Once he had the blues,
So he took a cruise
Far away from night clubs and from saxophones.
He said, "Yo-ho, I've made a certain port,
And when you talk about real he-man sport—

Hot ginger and dynamite,
There's nothing but that at night
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellas chew tobacky
And the women wicky-wacky-woo.
They way they can entertain
Would hurry a hurricane,
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellas chew tobacky
And the women wicky-wacky-woo.

In Fujiyama,
You get a mama,
Then your troubles increase.
In some pagoda,
She orders soda,
The earth shakes, milk-shakes, ten cents a piece.
They kissy and huggy nice.
By jingo! It's worth the price,
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellas chew tobacky
And the women wicky-wacky Woo.

Now when the day is warm
You can keep in form
With a bowl of rice beneath a parasol.
Every gentleman
Has to use a fan
And they only use suspenders in the fall.
That's where the girls don't think of rings and furs.
Gosh, it's the nicest place that ever were.

They give you a carriage free.
The horse is a Japanee,
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellas chew tobacky
And the women wicky-wacky-woo.
They sit you upon the floor.
No wonder your pants get sore,
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellas chew tobacky
And the women wicky-wacky-woo.

With Sweet Kimoner,
I pulled a boner.
I kept it up at high speed.
I got rheumatics,
And then sciatics.
Halitosis, that's guaranteed.
You just have to act your age
Or wind up inside a cage,
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellas chew tobacky
And the women wicky-wacky-woo.

With an ice-cream cone and a bottle of tea,
You can rest all day by the hickory tree,
But when night comes round, oh gosh, oh gee,
Mother, mother, mother, pin a rose on me.

Those pretty mamas
In pink pajamas,
They try to give you a kiss.
Those torrid teases
In B.V.D.ses,
Heaven help a sailor on a night like this!
Not too gentle and not too rough,
But you've got to tell them when you've had enough,
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellas chew tobacky
And the women wicky-wacky-woo.

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