This popular song did not cross my mind at all when I first conceived this list.  A passing comment from Jason Gibbs, however, made me think more about it.  Later, reading a published comment from the song’s composer prompted its inclusion.  It is the least conventional choice for this list, since there isn’t anything overtly about refugees.  Yet for reasons below, it speaks subtly about the experience of adjustment to the new land by Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. and elsewhere during the 1970s and 1980s.

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