Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Yankee, Go Home, artist - Van Dyke Parks. Album song Tokyo Rose, in the genre ПопDate of issue: 18.06.2007
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Yankee, Go Home |
| In sight of the lights of Roppongi |
| the night life of Tokyo goes |
| And out on the street with a beat from Tahiti a neon moon lollipop glows |
| A Four ships have sailed the ocean to the bay |
| A chop on the water o’er waves of gray |
| The Commodore a notion in the spray |
| Where in emotion |
| We hear him say |
| Boy that sea is vast |
| What joy we’re here at last |
| This has to be the island of Japan |
| Open up that door |
| We are ship to shore |
| We represent the President the sentiment of Uncle Sam |
| The Commodore steps forward with a sneeze |
| With as you were then and men at ease |
| To raise this once great nation from her knees |
| To teach her Thank you, Pardon Me Please |
| Might as well be Mars |
| Thank your stripes and stars |
| Show me to the bars of old Japan |
| Get down off this barge |
| Tell the man in charge |
| We’re unafraid we come to trade |
| A corporation for a nation |
| Every man back to his station |
| I can hear the native call |
| Yankee go home |
| Yankee go home |
| You must not forget you have self-respect |
| I will tell you confidential |
| I feel downright sentimential |
| Like a good Yank go home |
| Self-respect is so essential |
| I say let tomorrow come |
| Maybe bring heartache or sonno joi |
| Tell your son you’re a homesick boy |
| Don’t you pick up a gun it’s not a toy |
| Now from Rio to Rome I hear Yankee go home |
| Yankee go home |
| Parting is so sweet a sorrow |
| Yankee go home |
| May bring happiness tomorrow |
| One thing I have learned now that I’ve been burned |
| Is that if you should find that your hand’s in the fire |
| You pull it back quickly and you retire like |
| Any good Yank go home you may have to beg and borrow |
| I say let tomorrow come |
| On the level I’m telling you to the devil you give his due |
| But remember that China will answer true |
| I say Yankee go home |
| I say Yankee go home |
| Yankee go home |
| Yankee go home |
| What resembled mirth on a trembling earth |
| Now just feels so economic |
| I feel tragic you want comic |
| Like a good Yank go home live in love for every neighbor |
| Though they’re bound to disagree |
| That you’re some kind of VIP with your gunboat democracy |
| You can shoot off your mouth in your own country |
| I say Yankee go home |
| I say Yankee go home |
| Like a good Yank go home |
| Self-respect is so essential |
| I say let tomorrow come |
| Till the dollar meets with the yen |
| And the good times return again |
| You recall how the dollar has fallen men |
| That’s why we gotta go |
| We’re Americano |