"yankee go home cover piano mix" genre: Alternative Cover Songs
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	a lively, funny, angry Richard Thompson song for the times
	Credits: words and music by Richard Thompson (used with permission)
	Story Behind the Song i've enjoyed listening to and playing this song for years...the time seemed right to record it. I laid down a basic track with piano and drum machine, then added synth tracks and real saxophone--there seemed to be two versions--one with the piano and the other without--i like 'em both, so i'm posting both Lyrics Yankee Go Home Richard Thompson 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 lifeboats sound the retreat the 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 you turned my sister into a whore with a pair of stockings from the px store why don't you leave us alone 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 bein' alone yankee go home i've lost count of the chewing gum that i've had and coca-cola made my teeth go bad we'll handle this on our own yankee go home dow jones going into a stall spray paint says it on every wall the climb was fine now it's time to decline and fall overpaid oversexed and over here get smart gringo and disappear the hun's at the gates of rome yankee go home yankee go home just go home go home go home

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