Yankee In A Chip Shop

i dont think this song needs a whole lot of deciefering, but we shall disect it anyays...

We've come come to chameleon In your pubs/clubs [were trying to fit in]

Now we don't want no trouble So don't nick nick my derby from my wig [??] Just want to blend it [duh]

And if you want to fight us then We're gonna run run run all ten blocks We're gonna run run run to the tube stop [tube stop is a sub way]

Just trying to pull pull girls talking on their cells Saying "Boys/cowboys keep your gene pool to yourselves" [haHAha if you know what a gene pool is (which we all should) then you get it...]

They wanna know Who let the Yankees in the chip shop? They wanna know, ho Who let the Yankees in the chip shop? We gotta go go [Chip Shop= fast food] [yankees= americans]

Everyone say "Hey" and say it like you mean it 'Cause it doesn't mean a thing So it's easier to scream it Now say Oakland in never more Oakland Than when you're lost in London [screw oakland, hello london]

Say get get get our order up We gotta get get grease to sober up [no deciefering needed]

if anyone disagrees, feel free to argue. this is mostly opinion. songmeanings.net is mostly about opinions anyways

Seems like The Matches had themselves one HELL of a good time on their UK tour! By the way...it's a "tube stop" aka: the London subway, not a TOMB stop, which makes no sense! :) But after A Band In Hope drops, London will be BEGGING these Yankees to hang out in ALL their shops.

Haha, you've got me sorted eh? This is really the first Matches album I've got into, and admittedly the lyrics aren't well heard by me. If you give corrections I'll edit them all.

OK! My fave change will be "...keep your GENE POOL to yourselves." Which makes it clearer why the heck they want The Matches out of their chip shop, huh? LOL :) ---Linda

keep your gene pool to yourselves

haHAha greaat line

This song is being made into a musiq video anyways

they were on the cover of AP magazine.

when i saw the matches last night they played this song, Shawn said he wrote it when they was last in the UK, assuming the Biffy Clyro tour. Its about how us English people are alot 'arder than Americans apparently haha.

i absolutely love this song. not totally how to decipher the lyrics though.

The correct lyrics are:

We've come come to chameleon In your pubs/clubs Now we don't want no trouble So don't nick nick my derby from my wig Just want to blend it And if you want to fight us then We're gonna run run run all ten blocks We're gonna run run run to the tube stop Just trying to pull pull girls talking on their cells Saying "Boys/cowboys keep your gene pool to yourselves" They wanna know Who let the Yankees in the chip shop? They wanna know, ho Who let the Yankees in the chip shop? We gotta go go Everyone say "Hey" and say it like you mean it 'Cause it doesn't mean a thing So it's easier to scream it Now say Oakland in never more Oakland Than when you're lost in London Say get get get our order up We gotta get get grease to sober up

Straight outta the album booklet, so you can't argue with em.

Whoops, meant to say "Just want to blend in" not "it" Also just realized that there's a report thread in the forums for this stuff, so apologies to the mods.

Pretty sure they didn't write this on tour with Biffy Clyro as they played this when I saw them on said tour. Then again, I went to the last show of the tour so they might have written it during the tour and played it on the last night.