Chords for Manzanar (Laurie Lewis) performed by The Runaways

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_ _ The last minute shows are somehow_
I didn't save them tickets.
Was I supposed to save them tickets?
_ _ [C#] Because my problem is that_
She might bring her high school yearbook.
[C] _ _ Yeah, [C#] right.
You [A] _
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_ _ said my name is Nakashima
And [D] I'm a proud American
[A] _
_ I [D] came here in [A] 24
_ [C#] From my homeland [Bm] [E] in Japan
And I've [A] been your grapefruit oranges
_ [D] Saved some _ money, [A] bought a store Until [D] _ _ _ [A] 1943
Pearl _ [Bm] Harbor [B] and more _
Came [A] those _ relocation orders _
They took the [D] house, _ [A] stored the car
[D] And they drove us [A] to the desert _
[B] To a [Bm] place called [B] Moncano _ _
[A] Spanish word for abortion
Though we saw no apple trees
[D] Old and broke, _ [A] prison beds _
[C#] Wet [Bm] barbed wire found [E] in the hills
And [D] we dreamed of [A] apple blossoms
Waiting, [D] _ _ breathing [E] in the stars
Till [D] we woke up [A] in the desert _
_ [Bm] _ Prisoners of [B] arms and arms [A] Moncano _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Bm] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ Sixty years _ have long gone now
And I [D] _ can't forget [A] today
That [D] I came _ [A] from home
To my [Bm] homeland in [E] Japan
_ But [A] on the _ last winter night
_ I often _ wish upon a star
[A] That I'd [D] forget _ the [A] shame and sorrow
_ [B] That I [Bm] felt [E] at Moncano
And [D] we dreamed _ of [A] apple blossoms
Waiting, [D] _ breathing in [E] the stars
Till [D] we woke _
_ [A] _ _ up in [Bm] the desert
Of [B] Moncano _ _ [A] Moncano _ _
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [B] Moncano _
_ [A] Moncano _ _ _ _ _
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