Lyrics cowritten by Christian Sylvester. Upscale of 2010 video.
(original remake of the instrumental)
LYRICS
Inequality, the relics of feudalism
Revolution in France
Oh, The Three Estates ensured nobles favoritism
Revolution in France

La la liberte
Egalite
Fraternite
A Revolution

Don’t want no taxes
I’m paying too much
Let them eat cake
We had a banquet for lunch
I need my bread
Bread bread bread off with her head

It went from 8 sous to 12 in a year
Exactly what impoverished peasants had feared
The royals jeered
Ha ha ha there’s more for us
There was a famine
The peasants wouldn’t pay
Bad malnutrition and tooth decay

It went from famine to Napoleon’s war
You and me, let’s start a revolution
We will not take this poverty anymore
You and me, let’s start a revolution

On a tennis court, we swore to a constitution
Revolution in France
On July 14, we stormed the Bastille, we showed them
Revolution in France

La la liberte
Egalite
Fraternite
French revolution

The month of August, 1789
No feudalism, Declaration of Rights
August Decrees,
swept away the two estates

Women of Paris march down to Versailles
Carrying weapons
The French king they defied
You’ll give us bread
Bread! Bread or we’ll stab you dead!
A new constitution
With a limited monarchy
It was a bad time for France

We took on Austria, a war in the spring
Europe frightened by our revolution
We will not take it Louis XVI must die
Tension heightened by our revolution

Radical political mobs unite to start a
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Breechless sansculottes of the Paris Commune demanded
Revolution in France

La la liberte
Egalite
Fraternite
French Revolution

La la liberte
Egalite
Fraternite
French Revolution

Walk, walk, scaffold, baby
Guillotine was going crazy
Take heads of kings and ladies
Europe armed for the invading
Walk walk scaffold, baby
Guillotine was going crazy
Robespierre, Reign of Terror
Did it for the Public Safety

I want your loyalty or I’ll get my revenge
I take you out
Till your rebellion ends
Don’t want no church
Catholicism’s dead
No room for God
Worship reason instead

Good ol’ Notre Dame became a “temple of reason”
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A new calendar with months named for times and seasons
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The Terror ended and with Robespierre gone
Was this the ending of the revolution?
Five members of the new Directory ruled
Could it be a permanent solution?

Directory and legislature filled with corruption
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Monarchists and wars would cause even more disruption
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Ooh, oo, oo la la
Coo Coo coup d'état
Ooh, oo, oo la la
Napoleon’s here!