Richard Thompson – Yankee Go Home (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] G C x4 [Verse 1]
    G                     D
Oh, G.I. Joe put your gun away

    G                     D
The sun is setting on another day

 C                       D
Why don't you leave us alone

            G      
Yankee, go home
[Verse 2]
    G                             D
They're burning effigies out in the street

    G                          D
Man the lifeboats, sound the retreat

  C                   D
Pentagon's on the phone

            G  
Yankee, go home
[Bridge]
F                       C
You can't just kiss and run away

 Eb                            Bb
There ain't enough money on a sergeant's pay

 D                           Am7                    D
When the dance hall girl you banged's in the family way
[Verse 3]
    G                            D
Well, you turned my sister into a whore

    G                                        D
With a pair of silk stockings from the P.X. store

 C                       D
Why don't you leave us alone

 D         G
Yankee, go home

            G  
Yankee, go home

            G  
Just go home
[Verse 4]
    G                          D
My girlfriend still won't talk to me

    G                                            D
Since she met with a sailor from the land of the free

 C                    D
I'm tired of being alone

             G  
Yankee, go home
[Verse 5]
     G                                     D
I lost count of the chewing gum that I've had

    G                     D
And Coca-Cola made my teeth go bad

 C                       D
We'll handle this on our own

            G  
Yankee, go home
[Second Bridge]
F                       C
Dow Jones going into a stall

 Eb                            Bb
Spray paint saying it on every wall

 D                           Am7                    D
The climb was fine, now it's time to decline and fall
[Final Verse]
     G                        D
Overpaid, oversexed and over here

    G                     D
Get smart, gringo, disappear

 C                       D
The Hun's at the gates of Rome

            G  
Yankee, go home

            G  
Yankee, go home

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Go home

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Go home

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Go home