Текст песни Manzanar (Laurie Lewis) с переводом

He said my name is Nakashima

And I’m a proud American

I came here in '27

From my homeland of Japan

And we 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

Then they drove us to the desert

To a place called Manzanar

The Spanish word for «apple orchard»

Though we saw no apple trees

Just the rows of prison barracks

And barbed wired 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, they’ve all but vanished

And now I am an old man

But I don’t regret the day

That I came here from Japan

But on moonlit 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

Manzanar…

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