The Americans come : an episode in France in the year 1918 / [words by] Elizabeth A. Wilbur [music by] Fay Foster

(Spoken) A blinded Frenchman speaks to his son./”What is the cheering, my little one?/Oh, that my blinded eyes could see!/Hasten, my boy, to the window run,/And see what the noise in the street may be./I hear the drums and the marching feet/Look and see what it’s all about!/Who can it be that our people greet/with cheer and laughter and joyous shout?”/”There are men,my father, brown and strong,/And they carry a banner of wondrous hue/With a mighty tread they swing along/Now I see white stars on a field of blue!”/”You say that you see white stars on blue?/Look, are there stripes of red and white?/It must be yes, it must be true!/Oh, dear God, if I had my sight!/Hasten, son, fling the window wide/Let me kiss the staff the flag swings from/And salute the Stars and Stripes with pride,/For, God be praised, the Americans come!”