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Thread #35124   Message #478003
Posted By: CRANKY YANKEE
06-Jun-01 - 08:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: O'Carolan's Irish Pub, Tokyo, Japan
Subject: RE: BS: O'Carolan's Irish Pub, Tokyo, Japan
No, but I did learn the song, "Take me back to Tulsa" from a Japanese Hillbilly band (Country music hadn't been invented yet) called "The Blue Ramblers, at the Itazuki NCO club, in 1950. They were a great group, easilly as good as my "Ricepaddy Ramblers"

You have to close your eyes (after you read this) and imagine, "

TAKU MI BAKU TURSA AMU TU YUNGU MARI. (Take me back to tulsa I'm too young to marry)

The line "Little bee sucks the blossom, big bee gets the honey
Darkies grow the cotton, White man gets the money", was beautiful to hear. Only trouble was, I had to stifle the laugh that wanted desperately to roar out, so as not to embarass them, they were really fantastic musicians and singers. Couldn't understand most of the lyrics, but who cared. we knew the words to most of them, anyway.

regards, Jody Gibson.