The Wolfe Tones

Go On Home British Soldiers

The Wolfe Tones


Tom: G

G
Go on home British soldiers, go on home.
         C              G             D
Have you got no fuckin' homes of your own ?
    C                   G                        Em
For eight hundred years we've fought you without fear
            G             D             G
And we will fight you for eight hundred more

G
If you stay British soldiers if you stay
       C                  G   D
You'll never ever beat the IRA
    C                             G                  Em
The fourteen men in Derry are the last that you will bury
         G        D                  G
So take a tip and leave us while you may

G
Go on home British soldiers, go on home
         C              G             D
Have you got no fuckin' homes of your own ?
    C                   G                        Em
For eight hundred years we've fought you without fear
            G             D             G
And we will fight you for eight hundred more

G
No! we're not British we're not Saxon we're not English
      C          G            D
We're Irish! and proud we are to be
   C                       G                Em
So fuck your Union Jack we want our country back
   G           D                     G
We want to see old Ireland free once more

G
Go on home British soldiers, go on home
         C              G             D
Have you got no fuckin' homes of your own ?
    C                   G                        Em
For eight hundred years we've fought you without fear
            G             D             G
And we will fight you for eight hundred more

G
Go on home British soldiers, go on home
         C              G             D
Have you got no fuckin' homes of your own ?
    C                   G                        Em
For eight hundred years we've fought you without fear
            G             D             G
And we will fight you for eight hundred more

G
Well we're fighting British soldiers for the cause
       C           G        D
We'll never bow to soldiers because
C                              G          Em
Throughout our history we were born to be free
G                   D                G
So get out British soldiers leave us be