Nagasaki (song)
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Nagasaki (song)
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"Nagasaki" is an American jazz song by Harry Warren and Mort Dixon from 1928 and became a popular Tin Pan Alley hit. The silly, bawdy lyrics have only the vaguest relation to the Japanese port city of Nagasaki; part of the humor is realising that the speaker obviously knows very little about the place, and is just making it up. It was one of a series of US novelty songs set in "exotic" locations popular in the era starting with Albert Von Tilzer's 1919 hit "Oh By Jingo!"; "Nagasaki" even makes r
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Song by Harry Warren and Mort Dixon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki_(song)
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2024-03-19T12:51:47Z
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