by Julia Griffin

For Barbara Lee Smith

(After the lyrics of Rouget de Lisle)

“Give us back the statue of Liberty!” cried Raphaël Glucksmann, leader of the Place Publique party…
addressing ‘Americans who have chosen to go over to the tyrants’ side'”
—translated from Le Parisien

Allons, enfants de la patrie,
It’s time to face the USA!
Now they’ve chosen la tyrannie,
We must sauver La Liberté!
We must sauver La Liberté!
Now l’Amérique has gone insane,
And turned into a crook’s royaume,
Our statue needs another home—
We’re thinking Greenland, or Ukraine.

Aux armes, citoyens!
They will not care she’s gone:
Marchons, marchons!
They’ll build for sure
A great big bust of Don!