On the outskirts of the city of Tokyo
there's a home for orphaned girls
and here lived a girl called Midori
and it's from here that my story unfurls

Midori had lived in the home for a year
and she'd hated every second
she yearned to travel to America
where the wide open spaces beckoned

She loved her land of the rising sun
but the home where she lived was too crammed
she felt they would all be far better off
if she left on the trip that she'd planned

So one day Midori packed her bag
with a kimono, a drink and some food
and left the house before it was light
the matron she hoped to elude

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