Yankee Go Home chords by Van Dyke Parks

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Em
B
Eb
G
Dm
Bdim
C#dim
C#m
C#
D
A
F#
Am
E
F
C
Adim
Bm
Abaug
Asus4
Dsus4

Verse 1
Em 
B 
Eb 
B 
G 
In sight of the lights of Roppongi
B 
G 
Dm 
the night life of
Bdim 
B 
Tokyo goes
C#dim 
C#m 
C# 
B 
And out on   the street with a beat from
C# 
Em 
D 
Tahiti a neon moon lollipop glows
Em 
A Four ships have sailed
D 
G 
the ocean to the bay
A 
Em 
B 
A chop on the water
C# 
F# 
B 
o'er waves of gray
Em 
D 
The Commodore a notion in the spray
G 

Verse 2
A 
Em 
B 
Where in emotion
F# 
B 
We hear him say
Am 
D 
Boy that sea is vast
G 
What joy we're here at last
Am 
D 
This has to be the island
G 
C#dim 
of Japan
C#m 
F# 
Open  up that door
B 
We are ship to shore
C#m 
F# 
We represent the President the
B 
sentiment of Uncle Sam

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Verse 3
Em 
The Commodore steps
D 
G 
forward with a sneeze
A 
Em 
E 
B 
With as you were then and
C# 
F# 
B 
Am 
men at ease
F 
Em 
To raise this once great
G 
nation from her knees
A 
Em 
To teach her Thank you,
B 
C# 
F# 
Pardon Me Please
B 

Verse 4
Am 
D 
Might as well be Mars
G 
Thank your stripes and stars
Am 
D 
G 
D 
G 
Show me to the bars of old Ja pan
C# 
F# 
Get down off this barge
B 
Tell the man in charge
C#m 
F# 
We're unafraid we come to trade
B 
A corporation for a nation
Every man back to his station
Am 
D 
I can hear the native call
G 
D 
Yankee go home

Verse 5
G 
C 
G 
Am 
C 
Yankee go home
D 
G 
B 
Em 
You must not forget you have self- respect
A 
I will tell you confidential
D 
G 
I feel downright sentimential
Like a good Yank go home
Self- respect is so essential
C 
E 
Am 
I  say let tomorrow come
C 
G 
Maybe bring heartache or sonno joi
C 
G 
Tell your son you're a homesick boy
C 
Don't you pick up a gun
G 
Em 
E 
it's not a toy
Adim 
Am 
D 
Bm 
E 
Now from Rio to Rome
Am 
G 
I   hear Yankee go home
D 
Yankee go home

Verse 6
G 
Parting is so sweet a sorrow
C 
G 
Yankee go home
C 
G 
Am 
G 
Am 
C 
May bring happiness to morrow
D 
G 
One thing I have learned now
Em 
that I've been burned
Is that if you should find that
A 
your hand's in the fire
D 
You pull it back quickly
Am 
D 
and you retire like
C 
G 
Any good Yank go home you
may have to beg and borrow
C 
G 
C 
Abaug 
Am 
I say let to morrow come
C 
G 
On the level I'm telling you
C 
G 
to the devil you give his due
C 
But remember that China
E 
will answer true
Am 
D 
G 
I   say Yankee go home
Am 
D 
G 
Am 
D 
G 
B 
Em 
C 
D 
I say Yankee
G 
go home

Interlude 1

Verse 7
G 
Am 
D 
G 
Am 
D 
Yankee go home
G 
B 
Em 
C 
D 
G 
C 
D 
G 
D 
G 
Asus4 
Am 
D 
G 
B 
Em 
D 
Yankee
C 
Dsus4 
D 
G 
D 
G 
D 
G 
C 
G 
C 
go home
D 
G 
What resembled mirth on
Em 
a trembling earth
Asus4 
A 
Now just feels so economic
D 
Am 
D 
C 
Bm 
D 
I feel tragic you want com ic
G 
Like a good Yank go home live
in love for every neighbor
C 
Though they're bound
E 
Am 
to disagree
C 
G 
That you're some kind of VIP with
C 
G 
your gunboat democracy
C 
You can shoot off your mouth
G 
C 
E 
in your own country
Am 
D 
Bm 
E 
I   say Yankee go home
Adim 
G 
I say Yankee go home

Interlude 2

Asus4

Verse 8
G 
Like a good Yank go home
C 
Self- respect is so essential
E 
Am 
I say let tomorrow come
C 
G 
Till the dollar meets with the yen
C 
G 
And the good times return again
C 
You recall how the dollar
G 
has fallen men
Am 
B 
E 
That's why we gotta go
D 
G 
D 
G 
We're Amer
D 
G 
icano