Since our collective childhoods
We all have been enthralled
By tales of men and women
Who took charge when duty called
Who rode to warn the minutemen
Waved flags o’er Frederick streets
Who stood beside the cannon
Oh! how my proud heart beats
We’ve seen their names and stories
Inscribed in the hero’s book
And written down beside them now
Are the men of Marcus Hook
A virus stalked the nation
Fierce and hard and mean
Our medics, they put out a call
For polypropylene
For that’s the stuff that’s needed
To turn out PPEs
Without it we might find ourselves
A nation on its knees
So 43 men volunteered
They kissed their wives good-bye
They didn’t know they could do it
But they knew they had to try
They quarantined themselves within
The plant at Marcus Hook
To do the work required
Whatever that job took
Four long and lonely weeks inside
They worked around the clock
Four long and lonely weeks they worked
To fill the nation’s stock
And when they finally saw the sun
It touched a nations heart
To hear them say, “You’re welcome,
But we only did our part”
So don’t let no one tell you
Nothing’s made round here today
Braskem turns out heroes
Made in the U.S.A.
