Send Home the Military!

Lyrics by: Original by Vicky Ryder (updated by Lee & Marta)
Gaggle: Originally Triangle Gaggle (updated version: Tucson Raging Grannies)
Tune: The Marine Hymn
Date Written or Updated: original 06/12/25 (Updated 10/10/25)

From the Halls of Montezu-uma

to the shores of Tripoli,

our own military never thought

they’d be deployed in DC!

 

            Did you ever think you’d see the day.

            Did you think there’d come a time,

            when a peaceful protest in the street

            would be treated as a crime?

 

When a nation claiming free-eedom

and the right to think and speak,

would be brought down by a fascist coup

that attacks the poor and weak?

 

            First they came for for foreign immigrants

            workin’ hard to make it through.

            Then they came for college stu-udents

            and for labor unions, too.

 

Now they’re comin’ for come-e-di-ans

and journalists who speak out

against bigots and the billionaires,

That is why we rage and shout!

 

            Now Trump’s acts of insurre-ec-tion

            are clear for all to see

            declaring war on US ci-i-ties

            using our own military!

 

We the people claim our power now

and Trump does not have a throne!

So we’ll sing and march as we demand

that the Nash-nal Guard go home!