And I'm a proud American
I came here in '24
From my homeland in Japan
verse 2
And I picked your grapes and oranges
Saved some money, bought a store
Until Nineteen Forty-Two
Pearl Harbour and the war
verse 3
Came those relocation orders
They took our house, the store, the car
Then they drove us to the desert
To a place called Manzanar
verse 4
The Spanish word for "apple orchard"
Though we saw no apple trees
Only rows of prison barracks
With barbed wire boundaries
And we dream of apple blossoms
Waving free beneath the stars
Till we wake up in the desert
The prisoners of Manzanar
Manzanar
Verse 5
And now I am an old man
And I don't regret the day
That I came here from Japan
Verse 6
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
Outro
Manzanar
Manzanar