Manzanar

	  		



Intro: G 

verse 1 

He said, my name is Nakashima 
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And I'm a proud American 
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I came here in '24 
        Am            D 
From my homeland in Japan 


verse 2 
      G 
And I picked your grapes and oranges 
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Saved some money, bought a store 
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Until Nineteen Forty-Two 
      Am              D 
Pearl Harbour and the war 


verse 3 
       G 
Came those relocation orders 
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They took our house, the store, the car 
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Then they drove us to the desert 
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To a place called Manzanar 


verse 4 
       G 
The Spanish word for "apple orchard" 
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Though we saw no apple trees 
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Only rows of prison barracks 
     Am                D 
With barbed wire boundaries 


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And we dream of apple blossoms 
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Waving free beneath the stars 
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Till we wake up in the desert 
         Am           D 
The prisoners of Manzanar 
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Verse 5 
       
Fifty years, they've all but vanished 
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And now I am an old man 
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And I don't regret the day 
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That I came here from Japan 


Verse 6 

       G 
But on moonlit winter nights 
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I often wish upon a star 
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That I'd forget the shame and sorrow 
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That I felt at Manzanar 


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And we dream of apple blossoms 
       C                D 
Waving free beneath the stars 
        C              G 
Till we wake up in the desert 
         Am           D 
The prisoners of Manzanar 
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