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Artist: Richard Thompson
Canonical path: /richard-thompson/yankee-go-home
Related lyric paths: 6
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Yankee go home
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Yankee go home
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Oh GI Joe put your gun away
The sun is setting on another day
Why don't you leave us alone?
Yankee go home!
They're burning effigies out in the street
Man the life boats, sound the retreat
Pentagon's on the 'phone
Yankee go home!
You can't just kiss and run away
There ain't enough money on a sergeant's pay
When the dancehall girl you banged's in the family way
Oh you turned my sister into a whore
With a pair of silk stockings from the PX store
Why don't you leave us alone?
Yankee go home! Yankee go home! Just go home!
My girlfriend still won't talk to me
Since she met with a sailor from the land of the free
I'm tired of being alone
Yankee go home!
I lost count of the chewing gum that I've had
And coca-cola make my teeth go bad
We'll handle this on our own
Yankee go home!
Dow Jones going into a stall
Spray paint saying it on every wall
The climb was fine, now it's time to decline and fall
Over-paid, over-sexed and over here
Get smart, gringo, disappear
The Hun's at the gates of Rome
Yankee go home! Yankee go home! Go home!
Go home! Go home!
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