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| has gloss | eng: "Nagasaki" is a jazz song from 1928 by Harry Warren and Mort Dixon that became a popular Tin Pan Alley hit. The silly, bawdy lyrics have only the vaguest relation to the Japanese port city of Nagasaki. It was one of a series of US novelty songs set in "exotic" locations popular in the era starting with Albert Von Tilzers 1919 hit "Oh By Jingo!"; "Nagasaki" even makes reference to the genres prototype in the lyrics. |
| lexicalization | eng: Nagasaki |
| instance of | (noun) a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs" song, vocal |
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