Nagasaki

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Fellows, if you're arn
 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 fellers chew tobaccy
 And the women wicky-wacky
 Woo.
 The way they can entertain
 Would hurry a hurricane
 Back in Nagasaki
 Where the fellers chew tobaccy
 And the women wicky wacky
 Woo.
 In Fujiama
 You get a mama
 Then your troubles increase.
 In some pagoda
 She orders soda
 Earth-shake milk-shakes, ten cents a piece.
 They kissy and huggy nice
 Oh, By Jingo! I'ts worth the price.
 Back in Nagasaki
 Where the fellers chew tobaccy
 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 gentle man
 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 weres.
 They give you a carriage free
 The horse is a Japanee
 Back in Nagasaki
 Where the fellers chew tobaccy
 And the women wicky-wacky
 Woo.
 They sit you upon the floor
 No wonder your pants get sore
 Back in Nagasaki
 Where the fellers chew tobaccy
 And the women wicky-wacky
 Woo.
 With Sweet Kimoner
 I pulled a boner
 I kept it up at high speed.
 I got rhumatics
 And then psyatics
 Halatosisis, that's guarenteed.
 You just have to act your age
 Or wind up inside a cage
 Back in Nagasaki
 Where the fellers chew tobaccy
 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 pyjamas
 They try to give you a kiss
 Those torid 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 fellers chew tobaccy
 And the women wicky-wacky
 Woo.

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Duration
02:56
Key
7
Tempo
117 BPM

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