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Manzanar - Tom Russell

Written by：Russell

He said my name is Nakashima

And I'm a proud American

I came here in '27

From my homeland of Japan

And I picked your grapes and oranges

Made some money bought a store

Until 1942

Pearl harbor and the war

Came those relocation orders

They took our house the store the car

And they drove us through the desert

To a place called Manzanar

The spanish word for apple orchard

And though we saw no apple trees

Just the rows of prison barracks

With barbed wire boundaries

And we dream of apple blossoms

Waving free beneath the stars

Till we wake up in the desert

The prisoners of Manzanar

Manzanar

Fifty years have all but vanished

And now I'm an old man

But I don't regret the day

That I came here from Japan

But on moonliss winter nights

I often wish upon a star

That I'd forget the shame and sorrow

That I felt at Manzanar

And we dream of apple blossoms

Waving free beneath the stars

Till we wake up in the desert

The prisoners of Manzanar

And we dream of apple blossoms

Waving free beneath the stars

Till we wake up in the desert

The prisoners of Manzanar

Manzanar