Waters, Roger - Flushed With Wine Lyrics
[RINGMASTER]
Flushed with wine Marie Antoinette
Casts down her red, white and blue rosette
An impetuous and dangerous vignette
And then with her harming little shoe
She grinds the precious symbol underfoot
what a lark, what a hoot
The regiments all follow suit
The regiments
[CHORUS]
The regiments
[OFFICER]
[CHORUS]
The regiments
[OFFICER & CHORUS]
The regiments all follow suit
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
Red, white and blue and they all follow suit
[CHILDREN'S CHORUS]
Red, white and blue and they all follow suit
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
In Paris there is nothing to eat
[CHORUS]
Not a crust, not a crumb
Not a grain of wheat
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
They think that starving may weaken the man in the street
[CHORUS]
Not a chance, they're used to the heat
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
In Versailles they drink wine and dine on freshly baked bread
[CHORUS]
The peacock sprawls upon his bed
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
We choke on the bones of swallowed pride instead
[CHORUS]
Soon they'll see what a feast they've made
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
A bitter feast
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHORUS]
For the Parisians
[CHORUS]
...for the Parisians
[RINGMASTER]
These hags, these shrews, these courtesans
These animals we call women
Have marched hear through the pouring rain
TO bring the baker home again
[CHORUS]
Louis protests; he cries
[KING]
Veto, veto! I'll give you all bread if you just let me go!
[RINGMASTER]
These fishwives with their babies, these animals called ladies
Will carry back home to Paris
The King, The Queen, and The Dauphin
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
Versailles has loomed to the regiments' final bow
[CHORUS]
Versailles bloomed
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
All fawning before
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS]
The Austrian cow!
[CHORUS]
Fawning on bended knee
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
The party's over
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS]
Take down the marquee
[CHORUS]
Hang up your dancing shoes in the hanging tree
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
We'll take the baker back to Paris
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS]
Back to Paris
[TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS]
He'll make bread for the prince we decree
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, CHILDREN'S CHORUS, & FEMALE CHORUS]
The shrews, the hags and the courtesans
[TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS]
The animals we call women
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, CHILDREN'S CHORUS, & FEMALE CHORUS]
Will take back the King to Paris
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS]
The crowd now seven thousand strong
[TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS]
Bore the royal coach along
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHILDREN'S CHORUS]
With trophies raised on pikes above
[TROUBLEMAKER & MALE CHORUS]
The guardsman’s heads they had cut off
[TROUBLEMAKER]
Adieu Versailles
[MALE CHORUS]
It rains, it pours, the crowd roars
[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
Bonjour Paris
[CHORUS]
Adieu Versailles
[COMPANY]
Bonjour Paris, adieu Versailles
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Waters, Roger - I Want To Be King
- Waters, Roger - The Ship Of State Is All At Sea
- Waters, Roger - Silver, Sugar And Indigo
- Waters, Roger - To The Windward Isles
- Waters, Roger - The Papal Edict
- Waters, Roger - In Paris There's A Rumble Under The Ground
- Waters, Roger - The Fugitive King
- Waters, Roger - But The Marquis Of Boulli Has A Trump Card Up His Sleeve
- Waters, Roger - To Take Your Hat Off
- Waters, Roger - The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade
- Waters, Roger - The Commune De Paris
- Waters, Roger - My Dear Cousin Bourbon Of Spain
- Waters, Roger - The Letter
- Waters, Roger - Flushed With Wine
- Waters, Roger - Let Us Break All The Shields
- Waters, Roger - The Grievances Of The People
- Waters, Roger - France In Disarray
- Waters, Roger - To Laugh Is To Know How To Live
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