Don't miss my other anthems! So far, the parodies for the UK (twice), Canada, Germany (several versions), Norway (twice), France, the US, Russia, Italy, Sweden, China, Japan, Israel, North Korea, Australia, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Denmark, Mexico, Turkey, CSA, Cuba, Spain, the Netherlands, India, Brazil, Greece, Scotland, Finland, The Vaitcan City State, Belgium and more have been released. Mazurek Dąbrowskiego is the national anthem of Poland. It is also known by its original title, "Pieśń Legionów Polskich we Włoszech", "Song of the Polish Legions in Italy"). English translations of its Polish incipit include: "Poland has not yet perished", and "Poland is not yet lost". The lyrics were written by Józef Wybicki in Reggio Emilia, Cisalpine Republic in Northern Italy, between 16 and 19 of July, 1797, two years after the Third Partition of Poland erased the Polish--Lithuanian Commonwealth from the map. It was originally meant to boost the morale of Polish soldiers serving under General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski's Polish Legions that served with Napoleon's French Revolutionary Army in the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars. "Dabrowski's Mazurka", expressing the idea that the nation of Poland, despite lack of independence, had not disappeared as long as the Polish people were still alive and fighting in its name, soon became one of the most popular patriotic songs in Poland. The music is an unattributed mazurka and considered a "folk tune" that Polish composer Edward Pałłasz categorizes as "functional art" which was "fashionable among the gentry and rich bourgeoisie". Pałłasz opined that, "Wybicki probably made use of melodic motifs he had heard and combined them in one formal structure to suit the text". I mean no offense to the countries parodied. In fact, most of these countries are my favorites, and I wish them all my best. Poland is among the top 2 Soviet Bloc nations i like, and I was happy to see them join NATO back in 1999.