Sayonara Nakamura

When the luggers all sailed away From Roebuck Bay On that fateful day The diver on the B-19 was Nakamura Not yet twenty-one From the land of the rising sun His homeland was the island Okinawa In the deepest halls of the () shoals To fulfil the pearling master's goals Went the diver from the B-19, young Nakamura His quest for the lustrous pearl As strong as his love for the beautiful girl He'd wed when he returned to Okinawa But it's goodbye now, farewell Say goodbye to Okinawa For today, they'll bury you in West Australia You will never be as one With the land of the rising sun Sayonara, sayonara, Nakamura From the west came a tropical squall And the mercury began to fall Forty fathoms deep was Nakamura Set sail, no time to stage For the storm began to rage So they dragged to the surface the boy from Okinawa The agony's in his eyes An old Malay man cries He knows that the bends have got young Nakamura Helplessly they cursed As the diver's lungs near burst And he died on the deck, the boy from Okinawa And it's goodbye now, farewell Say goodbye to Okinawa For today they'll bury you in West Australia You will never be as one With the land of the rising sun Sayonara, sayonara, Nakamura To the diver's cemetery at Broome Bearing gifts, all deep in gloom They walked with the body of the diver Nakamura Headstones face the west A thousand divers lie at rest And they're joined today by the boy from Okinawa And it's goodbye now, farewell Say goodbye to Okinawa For today they'll bury you in West Australia You will never be as one With the land of the rising sun Sayonara, sayonara, Nakamura And it's goodbye now, farewell さよなら 沖縄 (Sayonara Okinawa) 君が眠るちにし Australia (Kimi ga nemuru chi nishi Australia) () さよなら、さよなら、中村 (Sayonara, sayonara, Nakamura) さよなら、中村 (Sayonara, Nakamura)