Hi Uncle Sam

{{Short description|Poem by William Forbes Marshall}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Original research|date=October 2008}}

Hi Uncle Sam! is a poem by Irish poet Rev. William Forbes Marshall. It asks of Americans that they remember the input and support of immigrants from Ulster on the United States throughout the American Revolution.

The poem was published in Marshall's book, Ulster Sails West, which was published in 1911.{{cite book

|last=Marshall

|first=William

|author-link=W. F. Marshall

|title=Ulster Sails West

|date=7 April 1977

|location=Belfast, UK

|publisher=Quota Press

|isbn=0-8063-0754-4

}} A mural in Newtownards displays a verse of the poem.{{cite web

| url = http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/mccormick/photos/no2415.htm#photo

| title = Mural Directory

| access-date = 2008-10-15

| author = Dr Jonathan McCormick

| publisher = Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)

}} The poem was also put to music and recorded by the Ulster Scots Folk Orchestra{{cite web

| url = http://www.qub.ac.uk/sa-old/resources/Belfast_Project/Sites_2004/USFO/pages/RepDiscography.html

| title = REPERTOIRE

| access-date = 2008-10-15

| publisher = Queen's University Belfast

}} and verse was used by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in their Emigration Series publication.{{cite web

| url = http://www.proni.gov.uk/emigration_series_-_01_-_emigration_to_the_u.s.a.pdf

| title = Emigration to the U.S.A.

| access-date = 2008-10-15

| publisher = Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

}}

The "Uncle Sam" of title refers to the later personification of the United States.