NAGASAKI
(Harry Warren / Mort Dixon)

Recorded by : Henry "Red" Allen"; Albert Ammons; Chet Atkins;
Charlie Barnet; Count Basie; Acker Bilk; Blue Moon; Cab Calloway;
Benny Carter; Casa Loma Orch.; The Chenile Sisters; 
Herman Chittison; Cowboy Jazz; Putney Dandridge; Sidney DeParis;
Eight To The Bar; Herschel Evans; Gracie Fields; Benny Goodman;
Stephane Grappelli; Carl Halen; John "Captain John" Handy;
Fletcher Henderson; Claude Hopkins; Barney Kessel; 
Pete Krebs & The Kung Pao Chickens; Gene Krupa; Carmen Leggio;
Meade "Lux" Lewis; Willie Lewis; Jimmie Lunceford; 
Magnificent Seven; Paul Mares; Gene Mayl; The Mills Brothers;
Borrah Minevitch; Marty Napoleon; New Deal Rhythm Band; 
Jeanne Newhall; Paris Swing Orch.; Paris Washboard; 
Pasadena Roof Orch.; The Poll Winners; 
Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France; Red Stick Ramblers; Don Redman;
Django Reinhardt; Jimmy Rosenberg; Bobby Short; Zoot Sims;
Willie "The Lion" Smith; Valaida Snow; Soprano Summit; Eddie South;
Spanky & Our Gang; Rex Stewart; Kay Thompson; The Three Keys;
The Three Suns; George "Bon Bon" Tunnell; Valaida; Terry Waldo;
Fats Waller; Washboard Serenaders; Leo Watson.


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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NAGASAKI
(Harry Warren / Mort Dixon)

Lew Stone & His Band (vocal: Nat Gonella)


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 a pagoda
She orders soda
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Guarantees

They kissy and huggy nice
By Jingo! I'ts worth the price.
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky-wacky
Woo.

(Orchestral Interlude)

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 on the floor
And splinter you galore
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky-wacky
Woo.

With Sweet Kimono
I tried to phone ‘er
And found the number engaged
In a pagoda
She orders soda
Ba-da-da-da-da-da. Guaranteed.

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.

(Gonella ad libs for one line)
In a pagoda
She orders soda
Ba-da-da-da-da-da. Guaranteed.

When the girls Ju Jitsu
Seems like a bus hit you
Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky-wacky
Woo.

Back in Nagasaki
Where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky-wacky
Woo.


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - November 2004)