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Johnny Gwan Home

America has left Afghanistan.

“Johnny Gwan Home” [ Johnny Goin’ Home ], by Swedish rap duo realPfft, commemorates fallen heroes.

In the spirit of the American Civil War song “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” penned and sung by a retired soldier, Clive Flatenbad mixes English, Jamaican slang and German, lamenting allied losses.

Das Johnny. Das Johnny? Das Johnny            

Where the grapes of wrath are stored

Where the grapes of wrath are stored

Up on the flight deck of the aeroplane

Das Johnny, das Johnny

                                  

Leaving Afghanistan… all alone

On an aeroplane

Das Johnny, das Johnny gwan flyin’ home

Where the grapes of wrath… are known

                  

Billeted in containers                                     

Das Johnny

Wraparound sunglasses

Das Johnny

Green attacks on blue

                        

Das Johnny, das Johnny… gwan home

Flew in a casket

Plane blew a gasket

Das Johnny

All gwan, all gwan… home

Das Johnny, das Johnny

Gwan home

C-17 Globemaster iii looks good t’ me                      

Das Johnny, das Johnny

Soldaten ‘s  boots

Das Johnny, he gwan…

Das Johnny, he gwan… home

            

Das Johnny

Whyfore he fight and die?

Souls of heroes fly on high

Das Johnny

His soul be flyin’… home

Das Johnny, he gwan

Das Johnny, he gwan

Home

Das Johnny, das Johnny, das Johnny                          

Where the grapes of wrath are stored

Where the grapes of wrath are stored…

Johnny, come home

Green attacks on blue

Johnny, come home!

Where the grapes of wrath are known

Das Johnny, all gwan, all gwan

Home

Das Johnny, he gwan… home

Das Johnny, das Johnny

Gwan home