A Portrait of Robert Burns Robert Burns

1793 · Poem

Impromptu on General Dumourier’s Desertion from the French Republican Army


You’re welcome to Despots, Dumourier;You’re welcome to Despots, Dumourier:How does Dampiere do?Ay, and Bournonville too?Why did they not come along with you, Dumourier?
I will fight France with you, Dumourier;I will fight France with you, Dumourier;I will fight France with you,I will take my chance with you;By my soul, I’ll dance with you, Dumourier.
Then let us fight about, Dumourier;Then let us fight about, Dumourier;Then let us fight about,Till Freedom’s spark be out,Then we’ll be damn’d, no doubt, Dumourier.
Year
1793
Form
Poem
Location
Dumfries
Source
Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns