RICHARD THOMPSON lyrics - Yankee Go Home

(Richard Thompson)



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!