Ineed with lyrics. i need to write a song about the french revelation.
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French Revolution

The French Revolution started in 1789

It was then France was going through hard times

King Louis XIV spent France's money selfishly

And it sent the country into poverty

The French government was the Old Order

The community consists of three estates

As the Old Regime states

First, was the clergy, who lived life as if it was easy

Second, came the nobility, who got expensive things

Last was the third and they are certainly (pause) the least

They consisted of merchants, the poor, and the bourgoise

Now what made the revolution begun

Was the arrangement of the French Monarchy

Which had France set up as an unequal structure of society

The third coming together was the key

To destroy the evil sovereignty

The estates-general was summoned after many years

To appoint the meeting that the King called

They did some important talking

But the third estate didn't have a choice

So they formed a new legislature called the 'National Assembly'

{CHORUS}

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity

Is what made them fight

And when Napoleon took the lead

is when the third got their rights

When the people heard that King Louis was running against their cause

So in Bastille a riot went off

Destroying everything in sight

This began the mark of the ten year fight

Enlightenment ideas had filled the thirds' head

But it didn't stop the Great Fear that spread

All across France it went

The absolutism of King Louis XVI still there

Spreading the fear through everyone

The lower class tired of the neglect, contempt, and ignorance

The National Assembly had a wave of brilliance

Tap-Tap-Tap-Da-Da went the pen

As they wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and (pause) Citizen

It said that “men are born and should remain free and equal…”

“A common contribution of tax was essential,”

And making the law the same for all was futile

Olympe de Gouges tried to include women

But the thought was declined by the National Assembly

And it's a price they’ll have to pay for sooner or later

{CHORUS}

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity

Is what made them fight

And when Napoleon took the lead

Is when the third got their rights

The first and the second estate were against the whole thing

So they stood with the king

Who was afraid of his enemies’ sudden actions

So ordering troops to protect his throne at the Versailles was his reaction

Angered by his sudden move 7,000 women attacked him

Until he agreed to move in to Tuileries Palace

After the constitution was completed

The Legislative Assembly came to life

The oath proposed by the Legislative Assembly Said that France would be a constitutional monarchy

Austria and Prussia in 1792 tried to intervene

It caused the govern to go into chaos and we lost three things

1.The war left us with a ruined economy 2.The legislation stopped the monarchy 3.The infamous Louis XVI We lost him to the invention of the guillotine

{CHORUS}

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity

Is what made them fight

And when Napoleon took the lead

Is when the third got their rights

Though the current legislature was doing a good job

The Legislative Assembly voted themselves out

For the National Convention who inspired the French Republic

To hold their ground

When the National Convention convened in 1792

Three radical leaders were in control

All were just as violent as the last

First was Jean-Paul Marot

The leader of the Paris sans culottes

Maximilien Robespierre came next

Who had a habit of cutting necks

Georges-Jacques Danton was third

He was a compromiser and very popular with the public

The goal now was to transform society

Positions were taken from the clergy

Forcing them to become equals with the rest of us

Churches were closed and bibles rewrote

To fit the cult of the Supreme Being

As time grew on France were concerned

That Robespierre was not save for them

His ruling brought upon the Reign of Terror

Other countries were forming a war

The lives taken by the guillotine were unnecessary

So they arrested Robespierre and took his life with the same thing

In 1795 the National Convention wrote another constitution called the Directory

But they were still in war with other countries

That was when Napoleon, a ruthless young man took the lead

And guided France's armies to victory

It was on December 24, 1799

That Napoleon became the dictator of France

France then was engulfed in peace

(Well for now)

{CHORUS}

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity

Is what made them fight

And when Napoleon took the lead

is when the third got their rights

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.