the rough beginnings of a french revolution song
With the monarchy
You see…
The nobles didn’t pay taxes
And peasants couldn’t relax’es
The nation was almost bankrupt
Because the economy sucked
Marie-Antoinette, the deficit queen
Spent all the money on things obscene
“Hey, that’s where political porn came from!”
So with all that discontent
The third estate set up a tent
In a tennis court on June 20, 1789
And that started somethin’ fine
Called the National Assembly
Also the Constitutional Monarchy
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Was written…
It declared freedom of thought and religion
Manorial courts were also forbidden
Feudalism was abolished then
But there were little rights for women
The Jacobin club was organized
Counter-revolutionaries began to materialize
After two month of the NA
Came the existence of the CA
“The Constituent Assembly!”
The CA turned France into 83 départments
And uniform municipal governments
The...
You see…
The nobles didn’t pay taxes
And peasants couldn’t relax’es
The nation was almost bankrupt
Because the economy sucked
Marie-Antoinette, the deficit queen
Spent all the money on things obscene
“Hey, that’s where political porn came from!”
So with all that discontent
The third estate set up a tent
In a tennis court on June 20, 1789
And that started somethin’ fine
Called the National Assembly
Also the Constitutional Monarchy
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Was written…
It declared freedom of thought and religion
Manorial courts were also forbidden
Feudalism was abolished then
But there were little rights for women
The Jacobin club was organized
Counter-revolutionaries began to materialize
After two month of the NA
Came the existence of the CA
“The Constituent Assembly!”
The CA turned France into 83 départments
And uniform municipal governments
The...