#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: Phillip Charles Saunders Yankee Go Home, Richard Thompson transcribed by phillip@princeton.edu Intro G C/G G C/G G C/G G C/G G (320003@1) DG.I. (xx0232@1)Joe put your gun away G (320003@1) DThe (xx0232@1)sun is setting on another day C (x32010@1) DWhy (xx0232@1)don't you leave us alone G (320003@1) C/GYankee (3x555x@1)Go Home G (320003@1) DThey're (xx0232@1)burning effigies out in the street G (320003@1) DMan (xx0232@1)the lifeboats, sound the retreat C (x32010@1) DPentagon's (xx0232@1)on the Phone GYankee (320003@1)Go Home F (133211@1) CYou (x32010@1)can't just kiss and run away Eb (x43121@3) BbThere (x1333x@1)ain't enough money on a sergeant's pay D/A (x00232@1) Am7 (x02010@1) DWhen (xx0232@1)the dance hall girl you banged's in the family way You turned my sister into a whore With a pair of silk stockings from the P.X. store Why don't you leave use alone Yankee Go Home My girlfriend 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've lost count of the chewing gum that I've had And vodka-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 Overpaid, oversexed and over here get smart, gringo, disappear The Hun's at the gates of Rome Yankee Go Home