Fellows if you're on 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 "Yoho I 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 momer and then your troubles increase
In some pagoda, She orders soda
The earth shakes milkshakes ten cents a piece
They kissee and hugee nice
By Jingo! it's worth the price
Back in Nagasaki where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky wacky woo.
Patter:
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.
2nd verse:
When the day is warm
You can keep in form
With a bowl of rice beneath a parasol
Ev'ry gentleman has to use a fan
And they only wear suspenders in the fall
That's where the gals don't think of rings and furs
Gee! it's the grandest place that ever was
They give you a carriage free
The horse is Japanese
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
Oh sweet Kimona I pulled a boner I kept it up at high speed
I got rheumatics And then sciatics of halitosis that's guaranteed
You must 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.
This song was recorded by dozens of artists, but was
never a hit (but it is a jazz standard).
A partial list of artists who have recorded it include:
Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins, Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Cab Calloway,
Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Gene Krupa, Jimmie Lunceford,
The Mills Brothers (who also included it on their Golden Greats album),
Django Reinhardt, Fats Waller (who also recorded it on his Twenty Greatest
Hits album).
