The Liberty Tree

'Twas the year of '93
 The French did plant an olive tree
 The symbol of great liberty
 And the people danced around it
 Oh wasn't I telling you
 The French declared courageously
 That equality, freedom and fraternity
 Would be the cry of every nation
 In '94 a new campaign
 The tools of darkness did maintain
 Gall's brave sons, they did form a league
 And their foes, they were dumbfounded
 They gave to Flanders liberty
 And all its people they set free
 The Dutch and Austrians home did flee
 And the dukes they were confounded
 Behold, may all of humankind
 Emancipated with the French combine
 May laurels green all on them shine
 And their sons and daughters long wear them
 May every tyrant shake with dread
 And tremble for their guilty head
 May the fleur-de-lis in dust be laid
 And they no longer wear them
 For church and state in close embrace
 Is the burden of the human race
 And the people tell you to your face
 That you will long repent it
 For kings in power and preaching drones
 Are the cause of all your heavy groans
 Down from your pulpits, down from your thrones
 You will tumble unlamented
 Oh wasn't I telling you
 The French declared courageously
 That equality, freedom and fraternity
 Would be the cry of every nation
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