Hit the Road Juan (tune: Hit the Road Jack)
By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO−Today is World Refugee Day. To protest the event, President Trump commissioned the following song. It will be premiered after his speech at the celebration [campaign rally] he is holding at the Lincoln Memorial on July 4th.
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Hit the road Juan and don’t you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Juan and don’t you come back no more.
You can’t stay!
Hit the road Juan and don’t you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Juan, and don’t you come back no more.
Oh children, children, I don’t mind being mean.
I’m the meanest old leader that you’ve ever seen.
I guess you’ll just have to wait.
Wait until America’s great (and white)
Hit the road Juan and don’t you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Juan and don’t you come back no more.
You can’t stay!
Hit the road Juan, and ICE will deport,
Deport, deport, deport, deport.
Hit the road Juan, and ICE will export you back.
Asylum cases, alien faces, banish them outright.
Gangs, rape, murder, shouldn’t make you uptight.
(Don’t care if you are ‘cause it’s understood)
There’s no room here, and you ain’t no good)
Well, I guess if I say so,
You’ll have to pack your things and go (That’s right)
Hit the road Juan, and ICE will deport,
Deport, deport, deport, deport.
Hit the road Juan, and ICE will export you back.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com. San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.