UKRAINIAN PIE

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The “Ukrainian Pie song” has over 2 BILLION views on Tiktok and the video Ukrainian Pie has had over 350,000 views on YouTube. It is becoming a global sensation.  I understand that it is now being played on Ukrainian radio. I wish to take this opportunity to thank the people who have supported the song as it heads towards going viral.

I have read the emotional comments of people around the globe reacting to the song, particularly those of people in Ukraine and of Ukrainian descent.

I hope in some small way this song inspires the Ukrainian people to fight on to victory. Please know that those of us here in the United States and other peace loving nations have you in our hearts.  

This song is tribute to the courage and fighting spirit of a great nation, and the magical music and lyrics of the greatest American popular song of all time—American Pie.

Ukrainian Pie

Lyrics by Hal Pollock

A long long time ago
I can still remember how
My heroes used to make me smile
I never thought that I would see
A superhero come to be
The leader of Ukraine
With John Wayne style

But times have changed here in this land
And when we had to make a stand
A giant walked among us
To stop what fate had brung us
He took our country by the hand
Said “Follow me I’ll take command
For freedom’s worth the dyin’
We’ll stop them or die tryin”

So fly high
Ukrainian guy
Servant of the People
Now it’s all do or die
Every man a soldier cause
The stakes are so high
Tell the Ruskie soldiers bye-bye
Make ‘em eat Ukrainian Pie

See the hawk born from a dove
The one that we have come to love
A TV star he used to be
Do you believe in Superman?
How do you think a comic can
Become the symbol of democracy

Who would have dreamed
This common man
Like Spartacus could lead the clan
We drove them out of Kyiv
He echoed heroes from before
Like Winston in the World War
We will fight them everywhere
This time the Ukies beat the bear

I started singin’ fly high
Ukrainian guy
Servant of the People
Now it’s all do or die
We’re not gonna take it
Poke the bear in the eye
Tell the Ruskie soldiers bye-bye
Make ‘em eat Ukrainian Pie

He walks among us without fear
Says “I’m not hiding I’m right here”
‘Cause I know God is on our side”

We took some punches in the gut
Then threw a Klitchko uppercut
“Sink the Moskva” was our battle cry

Vovan’s not a guy who likes to lose
He’s supercool just like Tom Cruise
Impossible? “No, not for me
The mission is we must be free”

And when he speaks the world hears
He puts aside his mortal fears
With commoners or queens
He always says just what he means

Hey Zelensky
Fly high Ukrainian guy
Let them eat their borscht
With our Ukrainian pie
While Putin drinks his vodka
And his generals die
Tell the Ruskie soldiers bye-bye
Make ‘em eat Ukrainian Pie

Harum scarum Volod‘ll double dare’em
There’s no one else you can’t compare ‘im
Nerves of steel and an iron fist
Like Tom Petty says he won’t back down
No we’re not givin’ any ground
‘Cause I’m the Sheriff in this town

Now there’s a rumor goin’ ‘round
They’re tryin’ to take the Z-Man down
But there’s a wall they can’t get through
And that‘s the yellow and the blue

If Ruskies think they stand a chance
They better wear their big boy pants
No squatting for a Hopak dance
When we make ‘em eat Ukrainian Pie

Hey Zelensky fly high
Ukrainian guy
Servant of the People
Now it’s all do or die
All the world wonders
Who the heck is this guy?
Tell the Ruskie soldiers bye-bye
Make ‘em eat Ukrainian Pie

Now Putin thought that we’d concede
The Jester said “He’s gonna need
A bigger army than he’ll ever send”

Putin’s not so nimble not so quick
Hoisted on his candlestick
And he’ll be the loser in the end

Now as I look around this place
There’s problems with this human race
And what will come to be
If people can’t be free

And if you think that things are swell
Try living here inside of Hell
For I will be the one to tell
The story of Ukrainian pie

Hey Zelensky
Fly high Ukrainian guy
Jousting with the devil
While the moon is still high
Turn it up a level
When there’s fire in the sky
Tell the Ruskie soldiers bye-bye
Make ‘em eat Ukrainian Pie

Now it’s time for some sad news
I hate to give you all the blues
But war is Hell and pain so high
But somehow we will soldier on
And when this war has come and gone
We’ll all share our sweet
Ukrainian pie

And through the land
The quiet screamed
In sounds of silence we all dreamed
We will be Ukraine again
We’re gonna make it until then

And the man that I admire most
Zelensky leads us in a toast
The day we have a Putin roast
Long live Ukrainian pie!

Hey Zelensky
Fly high Ukrainian guy
Servant of the People
Now it’s all do or die
Give them all a face full of Ukrainian pie
Tell the Ruskie soldiers bye-bye
Make ‘em eat Ukrainian Pie

We’ll be singing fly high
Ukrainian guy
Servant of the People
Now it’s all do or die
Give them all a face full of Ukrainian pie
Tell the Ruskie soldiers bye-bye

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Alex Kozar, hosting an event for the Ukraine Rescue Services in Kyiv, Ukraine, with President Zelensky present.

President Zelensky arriving in the US on 12/21/2022 for meetings with President Biden and President Zelensky’s historic speech to the joint sessions of congress.