Musical finales to Ontologic Atoms

Ted Samsel tejas at infi.net
Sun Aug 6 19:39:43 CDT 1995


To wax musical, I'm sorry I can't recall all the words to the old "jass"
standard, NAGASAKI. Form the '20s, I think, and Paul Whiteman (again I
think) did the definitive ver.

A string band I was in used to do it. It's a real snappy number.

"Hot ginger & dynamite.....
(memory lapses here)...

~
~
Down in Nagasaki
Where the women chew tobaccy
and they really like to
wikki
wakki
woo!"

I'm sure Wanda knows all the words.....

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
     "driving a Hudson Hornet on the disinformation triple bypass:
      cruising for burgers & garage sales. Hooks baited, lines en-
      tangled, roadkill cooked"




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