Luyện nghe bài hát Kenji

My father came from Japan in
He was, 15 he immigrated from Japan
He, he, he worked he was able to buy this patch
And build a

Let me, tell you the in the form of a dream
I don't why I have to tell it, but I know what it means
Close your eyes, just picture the
As I paint it for you, it was War II
When this man named Kenji up
Ken was not a
He was just a man, a family, who owned a store in L.A.

day, he crawled out of bed like he always did
Bacon and eggs with and kids
He on the second floor of a little store, he ran
He to L.A. from Japan
They him 'Immigrant'
In Japanese, he'd say, he was called,
That 'First generation in the United States'

When everyone was afraid of the Germans, afraid of the
But most of all of a homeland attack
And that morning Ken went out on the doormat
His world went black
there, front page news, three weeks before 1942
"Pearl Harbour's bombed and the Japs are comin'"

of soldiers dyin' and runnin'
Ken what it would lead to
Just like he guessed, the President
"The evil Japanese in our home will be locked away"
They gave Ken, a couple of
To get his whole life packed in two
Just two bags, even pack his clothes

folks didn't even have a suitcase, to pack anything in
So two bags, was all they gave them
When the kids mum, "Where are we goin'?"
Nobody even knew, what to say to
Ken didn't wanna lie, he said, "The US is lookin' for
So we have to in a place called Mandinar
a lot of Japanese people are"

Stop it, don't look at the
You don't get the soldiers wonderin'
If you run or not,
'Cause if you run then you get shot
Other that, try not to think about it
Try not to worry 'bout it bein' so
Someday, we'll get out, someday,

As soon as war out
The G.I. came and they just come to the
And you have to all the Japanese have to go
They took Mr.Lee, people didn't
Why did have to take him?
Because he's an innocent

So now, they're in a town soldiers surroundin' them
Every day, every night, look down at
From towers up on the wall
Ken really hate them at all
They were just their job and
He gonna make any problems

He had a garden, with vegetables and fruits that
He gave to the troops in a his wife made
But in the back of his mind, he wanted his families saved
Prisoners of war in their own damn country, for?
Time passed in the prison

He wanted them to it down when they were free
The only way out was, the army
And supposedly, men went out for the army, signed on
And ended up to Japan with a bomb
15 kilotonne blast, put an end to the war pretty fast
Two cities were blown to bits, the end of the war came

Ken got out, big of a normal life, with his kids and his wife
But, they got back to their home
What they saw them feel so alone
These people had trashed every
Smashed in the windows and in the doors
Written on the and the floor 'Japs not welcome anymore'

And Kenji dropped both of his bags at his and just stood outside
He, looked at his wife without to say
She looked back at him, wiped the away
And, said, "Someday, be okay, someday"
Now, the names been changed, but the story's true
My family was up back in '42
My family was there it was and damp
And they called it, an internment

When we first got back camp, uhh
It was pretty, pretty bad, I, I my husband said
"Are we gonna 'til last?"
Then my husband died they close the camp