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Instructions To All Persons

from 1942 by No-No Boy

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Instructions to all persons of Japanese…
Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry

I think of my friend Sachi, now, Mrs. Kuwatani
Telling me stories in the old folks home
Like the time she was a little girl
and climbed above the rest of the world
Scaled the tower at the Santa Anita racetrack
Where not even the boys dared go
And she felt good for a moment or so…

I think of my friend Tats
fishing scorpions from the hot
Colorado River Indian land
Would be Casanova
Walking three girls home from the dance
Well after midnight
Singing harmonies, til one by one they’d leave
and leave Tats to stroll back in the moonlight
Singing ballads to the stars all his own
And he felt good for moment or so…

Instructions to all persons of Japanese…
Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry

I think of my friend Roy, a farm kid, teenage boy
Mr. Tanaka inviting him to join the dance band
In a place called Tule Lake, then, later on at Amache
He found a group of kids to find trouble with
Some little slice of living
Through a clerical error, his friends and him
got a bunkhouse to themselves, they called the “Loafers Inn”
Playing cards and telling jokes
They felt good for a moment or so…

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from 1942, released September 21, 2018

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Nashville-born, Oregon musician & scholar. New album "Empire Electric out on Smithsonian Folkways fall 2023.

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