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Artist: John Martyn
Canonical path: /john-martyn/don-t-you-go
Related lyric paths: 6
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Don't You Go
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Don't You Go
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The army and the navy
They never will agree
Till all the men and all the boys
Are gone from our country
Don’t you go
Don’t you go, my son
Don’t you go
Don’t you go, my son
The proud and the powerful
In whose hands we lie
Never will be pleasured
Till all our women cry
Don’t you go
Don’t you go
Ah, don’t you go
Don’t you go, my son
The mastery, the misery
Called the art of war
Must never try and foil world peace
As it has done before
Don’t you go
Don’t you go, my son
Don’t you go
Don’t you go, my son
The army and the navy
They never will agree
Till all the men and all the boys
Are gone from this country
Oh, don’t you go
Don’t you go, my son
Don’t you go
Don’t you go
Don’t you go
Don’t you go
Don’t you go
Don’t you go, my son
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