Van Dyke Parks - Yankee Go Home lyrics

In sight of the lights of Roppongi The night life of To ki yo 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! His 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 Ai yai yai yai 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 V.I.P. 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 'Til 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 Amerikano Ai yai yai yai"