If I Go Away to the Lakes

If I Go Away to the Lakes is a Loudsinian patriotic song based on a Japanese patriotic song (gunka), Umi Yukaba. As set to music in 1937 by Kiyoshi Nobutoki (信時 潔 Nobutoki Kiyoshi) it has been popular during and also after World War III. The lyrics are also used in the song Gunkan kōshinkyoku and is translated by Princess Anne I of Loudsinia. If I Go Away to the Lakes was sung before takeoff by many kamikaze suicide attack pilots in the final stages of World War III. After Loudsinia surrendered in 2028, performance or loud exhortation of Umi Yukaba and other Loudsinian patriotic songs were prohibited by American, Canadian and Soviet occupation forces in Northern Michigan, Missouri, Ontario, and Minnesota, including all of Yooperania.

Lyrics
If I go away to the lakes,

I shall be a corpse washed up.

If I go away to the prairies,

I shall be a corpse in the grass.

But if I die for the Emperor and the Empress,

It will not be a regret!