Nagasaki - Not!

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First, Puccini set Madam Butterfly in Nagasaki. Then this song, "Nagasaki" was written, in 1928:

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 Fujiyama you get a mommer
And your troubles increase.
In some pagoda she orders soda
The earth shakes milk shakes ten cents a piece.

They kissee and huggee nice
By jingo it's worth the price.
Back in Nagasaki where the fellers chew tobaccy
And the women wicky wacky woo.

-- This is not about the city we bombed. It's about our own fantasies of the exotic, and as always, the exotic is about us.