Luyện nghe bài hát Kenji

My father from Japan in 1905
He was, 15 he immigrated from Japan
He, he, he until he was able to buy this patch
And a store

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

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

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

of soldiers dyin' and runnin'
Ken knew it would lead to
Just he guessed, the President said
"The evil Japanese in our home country be locked away"
They gave Ken, a of days
To get his life packed in two bags
Just two bags, couldn't even his clothes

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

Stop it, don't at the gunmen
You wanna 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 'bout it bein' so crowded
Someday, we'll get out, someday,

As as war broke out
The G.I. came and they come to the house
And you have to come all the have to go
They took Mr.Lee, people understand
Why did they have to take
he's an innocent labor

So now, they're in a town soldiers surroundin' them
Every day, every night, look at them
From watch up on the wall
Ken couldn't really them at all
They were just doin' job and
He gonna make any problems

He had a little garden, with and fruits that
He gave to the in a basket his wife made
But in the back of his mind, he wanted his life saved
Prisoners of war in their own damn country, what
Time in the prison town

He wanted them to live it down when they free
The way out was, joinin' 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 were blown to bits, the end of the war came quick

Ken got out, big hopes of a normal life, with his and his wife
But, when got back to their home
What they saw made them so alone
These people had every room
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 sides and just outside
He, at his wife without words to say
She back at him, wiped the tears away
And, said, "Someday, be okay, someday"
Now, the names have been changed, but the story's
My family was locked up in '42
My family was it was dark and damp
And they it, an internment camp

we first got back from camp, uhh
It was pretty, pretty bad, I, I remember my husband
"Are we gonna stay last?"
Then my husband before they close the camp