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Dinah

1934

LYRICS

[Full AABA in Japanese]

Oh Dinah,

Is there anyone finer

In the state of Carolina?

If there is and you know her, you know her,

Show her to me!

Dinah, with her Dixie eyes blazin',

How I love to sit and gaze in

To the eyes of Dinah Lee.

Why Dinah, every night,

Oh why do I shake with fright?

Because my Dinah might,

She changed her mind about me!

Woah Dinah Dinah Dinah if she,

wandered to China,

I would hop an ocean liner,

Just to be with Dinah Lee.

Mmm Dinah,

Is there anyone finer

In the state of Carolina?

If there is and you know her, you know her,

Show her to me!

Oh Dinah, with her Dixie eyes blazin',

How I love to sit and gaze in

To the eyes of Dinah Lee.

Why Dinah, oooh

Dinah if she’d wander to China,

I would hop an ocean liner,

Just to be with Dinah Lee.

SONG NOTES

This recording is in Japanese, and seems to have been recorded in Japan. Read more about the song's success and jazz in Japan here.

Note for musicians: The word Dixie is controversial, connoting an idealised version of the Antebellum South.

LANGUAGE

English, Japanese

FEATURED IN

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CITATION

Columbia matrix 27874-A. Dinah - Columbia Jazz Band. 1934. NDL Historical Recordings. https://rekion.dl.ndl.go.jp/en/ongen_shoukai_10