Yes Sir, No Sir lyrics

Yes sir, no sir

Where do I go, sir?

What do I do, sir?

What do I say?

Yes sir, no sir

Where do I go, sir?

What do I do, sir?

How do I behave?

Yes sir, no sir

Permission to speak, sir?

Permission to breathe, sir?

What do I say? how do I behave? what do I say?

So you think that you've got ambition

Top your dreaming and your idle wishing

You're outside and there ain't no admission

To our play

Pack up your ambition in your old kit bag

And you'll be happy with a packet of fags

Chest out, stomach in!

Do what I say, do what I say

Yes right away

Yes sir, no sir

Where do I go sir

What do I do sir

What do I say

Yes sir, no sir

Permission to speak, sir?

Permission to breathe, sir?

What do I say? how do I behave? what do I say?

Doesn't matter who you are

You're there and there you are

Everything is in its place

Authority must be maintained

And then we know exactly where we are

Let them feel that they're important to the cause

But let them know that they are fighting for their homes

Just be sure that they're contributing their all

Give the scum a gun and make the bugger fight

And be sure to have deserters shot on sight

If he dies we'll send a medal to his wife

Yes sir, no sir

Please let me die, sir

I think this life is affecting my brain

Yes sir, no sir

Three bags full sir

What do I do sir, what do I say?

What do I say, how do I behave, what do I say ???

• Artist:The Kinks
• Album:Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969)